Re: New thread time while you're all here - religious belief and mental health where are the lines?
- From: "Jymn" <jymnat@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:11:24 +0100
"Lynne" wrote:
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The actual percentage of people with MH probs who commit violent crime is
tiny, but you wouldn't know it from a) tabloid/tv coverage
If the media reflected reality it wouldn't be profitable. It seems people
are far more comfortable believing the media than thinking.
or B) the reasons given by the govt for the proposed amendment to the
Mental Health Act.
I don't buy b) myself. I think it's more of a social control device, to be
used when the Terrorism act won't allow them to lock up anyone who makes
too much of a nusiance of themselves, but hey, I'm a cynic ;-)
Colour me cynical as well.
There seems to be few controls on what can be done under existing mental
health provisions, the proposed extensions have too many echoes of
totalitarian regimes.
Even heretics weren't punished for what they might think or do but for what
they did.
Jymn
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