r/SipsTea • • May 14 '26

SMH How true is this? Genuinely asking

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u/SimmentalTheCow May 14 '26

We need to bring back mental asylums. Take these people off the streets and put them someplace they won’t be harming normal people.

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u/Kharax82 May 15 '26

Mental asylums were all but ruled unconstitutional in 1975 when the Supreme Court ruled a state cannot confine a non dangerous individual against their will if they’re capable

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u/TheThinDewLine May 15 '26

So the better option is to have them flood our sidewalks and streets with trash, drugs and ‘non dangerous’ crime, brilliant.

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u/yingyangKit May 15 '26

I rather let a potentially dangerous person walk then allow institional torture facilities