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Originally Posted by Mightyfire89
Yeah, sure, the mental health system is broken, I don’t think there can be any doubt about that.
For me it always gets back to personal responsibility. Decisions are made by all of us every single moment of every day we’re alive. The vast majority of those decisions are completely innocuous. Some decisions, however, are critical. If you charge police officers holding a deadly weapon, you’ve made a decision. Consequences sometimes follow decisions.
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I appreciate your contribution/follow up discussion here...just wanted to unpack your emphasis on the word 'decision'...I think we can safely assume there wasn't any sort of rational decision making happening at this time for this man.
Getting help is hard, as is the 'help' being effective. Perhaps he did make some [semi]-rational decisions along the way to refuse help or to avoid seeking help, but IMO it's unlikely that he was making any cognitive decisions in the moments leading up to this event.