So much for Canada's "more compassionate" approach to people with mental health problems

[blackbird]

On 4/29/2025 at 4:37 PM, eyeball said:

Nope, we just live with it like we live with the risk of dying in a plane crash or having a bolt of lightning strike us.  The risk of dying at the hands of a mentally ill person is that remote.

You think it's remote.  Maybe you live in a small village somewhere where there's not many mentally ill people.  

Maybe ask the Filipino relatives who lost loved ones in Vancouver last Saturday if they think there is nothing to worry about.

Ask some of the business people who have to deal with shop lifting every day in some of the cities.

[eyeball]

34 minutes ago, blackbird said:

Thanks for the tip.   I will keep the doors locked.

I thought the forum is the place to post real ideas to solve some of the problems we have in the world.  

And you think your idea of capital punishment for mental illness is a good idea?

You should be locked up.

[CdnFox]

2 hours ago, eyeball said:

Oh yes, you're usual admission that you know someone's right but you can't cope with it

I know that you liberal and left-wing types like to believe that money is endless. If you don't have enough you can just print as much as you like or if necessary tax the rich

That's not how it works. In the real world money is finite and you have to set priorities. And your priorities were too slow the economy down by introducing a carbon tax which actually didn't reduce any carbon. And a host of other programs that did nothing but make things worse.

If you felt this was more important than that's where you should have been demanding that the money be put.

This is your doing. I've been saying that for decades  

[blackbird]

3 hours ago, eyeball said:

And you think your idea of capital punishment for mental illness is a good idea?

You should be locked up.

Never said that.  

I said there should be capital punishment for murderers.  I also gave you a long list of Bible verses which say capital punishment for murder.  It mentions nothing about escaping capital punishment for murder because of mental illness or NCR.   I respect what God has said in his word above what misguided humans say.  What we have today in our cities is anarchy.

Do you recall a man by the name of Robert Pickton?

Between 1995 and 2001, Pickton is believed to have murdered at least 26 women, many of them prostitutes from Vancouver 's Downtown Eastside."

Last Saturday eleven people were murdered by a car ramming in Vancouver and around 20 people seriously injured.

Secondly people with mental illness should not be left on the streets to commit crimes, assaults, robberies, and take drugs.  This is what is happening now in the east side of downtown Vancouver.   It is a complete disaster area with these people sleeping on the street in alleys.  Going to the bathroom on the streets wherever.  Do you really think they are better off than they would be in a mental institution?

It is not safe for anyone to walk through that area.  People have been assaulted and even murdered.   Perhaps we can agree that these people on the streets with mental problems should be in an institution to prevent them from committing crimes.  They would have a good warm place to live with a proper bed, regular meals, clothing, TV, and be taken care of.   Since they would be under supervision, they just wouldn't be able to shoot up with drugs and do harm to others.  I think that would be very charitable way to treat the mentally ill.  Much better than prison.

 

Edited May 1 by blackbird