[ExI] Basic Income - Basic Housing?

spike spike66 at att.net
Tue Apr 8 15:00:17 UTC 2014


 

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 10:46 PM
To: ExI chat list
Subject: Re: [ExI] Basic Income - Basic Housing?

 

>>.On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:35 AM, William Flynn Wallace
<foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't know either but I do know this:  alcoholics and drug addicts and the
mentally retarded and psychotic should not be homeless unless they simply
will not stay put in some kind of housing.

 

>.Bill,  When the courts prevent people from being incarcerated against
their will when seriously mentally ill, it is a great victory for the
personal freedom of the individual who is mentally ill. But with freedom
comes responsibility.-Kelly

 

 

 

Ja.  Russia killed the notion of helping the mentally ill against their will
by incarcerating in mental institutions those who espoused politically
unconventional notions.  In our modern times in America, note how often we
are now seeing comments about those who believe that global warming is not
caused by humans.  These people are increasingly being seen as crazy and
dangerous.  

 

If we had a legal system which allowed them to be incarcerated against their
will, the party in power could just incarcerate its political opponents, and
oh how convenient that would be.  Permanent supermajority in congress,
things could get DONE!  Just as in the case of the Affordable Care Act,
actual debate on the floor of congress would be unnecessary.  Insurance
companies could just buy all the legislation they want on their own terms,
the political opposition would be in mental institutions, or stifled under
the threat of gong there, nooo problem.

 

spike

 

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