Posted by wishingstar on February 4, 2007, at 18:45:42
In reply to Re: Hospitalization » wishingstar, posted by toojane on February 3, 2007, at 19:28:02
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> I don't believe you can truly help people by taking away their choices. I think that once you impose your will on someone else, once you believe it is acceptable to do that, it makes abuses that much easier to happen. Slippery slope.
>Again, just want to say that I agree with you completely. There are certainly situations in which people need to be kept physically safe, and so I can understand the need to protect people in that way with some restrictions (ie, taking away sharps) but taking away ALL choices, ALL freedom, just does not generalize to the outside world. Even aside from the possible abuses which can occur (which I dont mean to trivialize at all, just wanting to add another point), the entire goal of hospitazliation as I know it is to stabalize a person so they can be better, safer, etc when released. But this fake environment doesnt generalize terribly well. Even if you were safe in that environment, if you had no practice in keeping yourself safe or healthy, being released can be very difficult I think.
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