Danfun128 said:

Trident said:

Should the mentally ill ... be aloud to wander around major cities? Why don't we round all these types up and put them in a resort or something?

I'd like you to define "mentally ill". Do you include treatable conditions, like Aspergers or Bipolar disorder? Do individuals like those who are trying their best to live normals lives deserve to be arrested. Yes you would be putting them in a golden cage, but it would still be a cage nonetheless.

Also, why should you limit ourselves to taking just the mentally ill and the homeless out of society? [sarcasm]Why not the communists, and the jews, and any other undesirables you can think of? In fact, why is civil rights a thing? Our country should be filled with only sane white people. Everything else can live in comfort while not really doing anything[/sarcasm]

Note: I am not a bigot (at least, I am not trying to be). I have nothing against communists or jews or other races or anybody else. I am just trying to make a point of where Trident's line of thinking might lead to.

The idea is that right now we are not doing anything for people who live in cardboard boxes and eat out of the garbage through no fault of their own. We used to lock these people away in sanitariums and that was pretty awful so I say why not scoop them up and put them on a perpetual holiday from their troubles. I group the homeless in with mentally ill in the sense that many of the homeless people are really quite mentally ill. I'm not envisioning a door to door search for people who are already coping. I'm just thinking of those poor bastards who are living in alleys.