At what point do we as a society put people in mental hospital for thinking a man in the sky caused katrina?
438133
There's plenty of things wrong with mental hospitals, too, you know.  They could come out worse than they went in!
827221
Katrina was the turning point in this country. Seeing the habitual lack of care for humanity is what sent his poll numbers to where they are now. \n\nBarbara Bush's words: "So many people in the arena here were under privileged anyway, this is really working out quite well for them".\n\nThe family doesn't care about anyone without a thick wallet. Its time we started realizing that, both true conservatives and liberals alike.
1131559
No. Insane people often can't help their mental imbalance. Christians are lunatics by choice.
537864
They have to have a reason, the person must be INSANE!!
381474
Are you talking ablout situations like the tsunami, where we went to there aid immediatly but when katrina hit no one lifted a finger? its because the world needs us but they do not appreciate are us, when they don't need us thay talk shi* but something bad happens and they want us to help there asses
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I couldn't answer in details as I don't know the specifics of the situation... but just generally as I see it, almost everything on earth goes through some kind of cycle.\n\nBut you're right it's one thing that is BLOODY ridiculous!\n\nThough everyone is entitled to his own cause, whether for religion or politics, we must think of the common good for everyone.  And if ever, we would cling to the words of the Bible that we're created in the image and likeness of God, we must NOT be hurting others, much as we wouldn't like to be hurt.  More so that people should not be killing people, because we are all the same in this world all having the rights for life, for love, for everything we're entitled.\n\nAnd even if we don't believe in God nor in any religion, may we just ask ourselves, "Do we really like what is happening, such as these wars for eons...?" -- and if the answer is NO, and I think it's just COMMON SENSE that we should stop doing such.\n\nBut even if unknowingly, we have been molded by the "structural system" in our society, that we must be like what we believe is right for us... when when see the killings and damages to life and properties, is not enough to say that IT'S ENOUGH!  \n\nIn simple Philosophy we are not ordinary animals... we have FREE WILL and MIND to think what to choose what to do or not to do.
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I don't think it's so much a matter of people being too dependant on authority as it is a matter of people not wanting to take responsibility for themselves any more. People need to be told what to do nowadays because they don't like thinking for themselves, don't like having to be the one responsible if something happens that they don't like, don't like being the reason for something happening that doesn't benefit themselves.\n\nIt's a sad world that we have birthed, and our children are going to pay dearly for it.
254606
Religion covers a wide range of people. If religions is a mental illness, then the majority of people on earth are mentally ill.
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well. if he was ranting on and on to no one, people would think he's crazy because u usually rant on and on to someone who's actually there besides himself.  i think crazy people lose the sense of reality.  somehow they live in 2 worlds in their minds and then combine them.  eventually they don't know what's reality and what's not.  i dont think the crazy people know they're crazy but others would know it.  just like u thought the guy was probably WACKED...your natural instincts made u aware that this is not normal for him to be ranting to himself.
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Because in the past, superstitious people attirbuted virtually everything to God or gods.\nEarthquakes, floods, storms, etc were all the work of God or the gods.\nOf course, most people are more reasonable and know it is mostly just natural disasters.
182994
Forget FEMA, ... the debacle was that people in the gulf-coast actually thought that government would rescue them.   We will know better next time.  The government is completely broken.
23634
You are asking for the human society to give up being on top. And that goes against many people human nature. That best answer for what you are looking for is a community living type of place. There is one in MO I think it is called the bouncing bunny or something like that. I saw it on 30 days. But the reason simple answer is we are a decorant society.
545680
Yes funny question, however the serious side of this is the answer - society is making everyone have to sit up and protect their safety more than ever now.  The world is turning into a sad place.
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Most science today has very exact measurements and descriptions. Such is not yet the case in the science of the brain and human behavior. Having more names helps a little as the science progresses and newly tested drugs are useful. Mental illness is a disorder and lives are screwed up and personal pain is acute. Remember only seventy-five years ago Eugenics considered all mental illness hereditary and patients were sterilized and some killed. Our social practices are the slowly changing and still produce a percentage of failures. Those free of depression in our society don't want to lose their advantage in their groups. Historically different utopias have been tried and failed. We all collectively come back to this social system. The only real help ever has been from the christian concepts. Even that is constantly adapting to meet our institutional forms in society. Therefore analyzing the profession seems to be accurate from one view of life. But without a better solution being introduced the complaints hold only a small value.
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Thank you very much for asking this question as it allows us to see the true natiure of the Christian believer. Look at these cold-hearted answers:\n\n"Most sat on their ass when they should have gotten out of there": here we have a person who has presumably never lived anywhere near a natural catastrophe blindly passing judgement on those who tragically lost their lives. The implication here is that nobody was caught or stranded and that, in a sense, they had it coming. This is human compassion.\n\n"God didn't send the hurricane; Satan did": here we have the classic argument: that which is good is the work of God, that which is bad is the work of the Devil. God, who the Bible repeatedly states can control the world however he wants, chose this time to sit back and allow the Devil to do his thing. Even more amazing, those who did survive were saved by God. Those who didn't, for reasons I guess we cannot know, thus weren't.\n\n"Not all of the people are dead, so obviously He helped them": again, here we have a God arbitrarily picking-and-choosing. One wonders if he just threw darts at a dartboard to decide who should perish, leaving their loved ones to mourn, and who should be saved. One might be reminded at this time that innocent babies were among the dead.\n\n"God gave them brains and feet to run with": again, apparently those who died were not using their God-given brains. I dearly truly hope that none of the people who have answered here are met with a natural catastrophe. I, for my part, would never dare to blame their demise on their own lack of thinking...\n\n"He was with those people but maybe they did something wrong": arrogance! Do you know anything of the minds of those people who died? How many of them had been good citizens, maybe even good Christians? How many of them were innocent babies with no way to protect themselves?\n\n"If one prays, God can easily divert or stop the hurricane": natural disasters are caused because people don't pray. or, alternately, God could have stopped the hurricane, but just decided not to because not enough people were praying... Divine justice and mercy...\n\n"Do you also blame the police for not stopping every crime?": well, or course not, for we can recognise that the police are fallible and not all-powerful. The analogy does not fit at all because the God that many of those people believed in is all-powerful... but sometimes chooses not to use that power.\n\n"God never strikes a place without warning its people first": this wins hands-down for most arrogant and crude response yet. The number of people who die tragically in natural disasters is all but incalculable. The suggestion here is that God is repeating his Sodom-and-Gomorrah trick countless times a year and people are just too deaf to hear. Additionally, the people who died in New Orleans were the ones who "embraced witchcraft and celebrated lewdness" - or perhaps this person believes that _all_ people in New Orleans were/are lewd witches. The tragedy of this lack of compassion is that it implies, somehow, that the writer's good luck never to have been hit by a natural disaster somehow makes him more righteous than other people.\n\nNote that all of the above is from a 'Christian' point of view... It's enough to make you cry.
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In Britain we pay for the NHS, so everyone has a right to life. This doesn't really kick in until you see someone collapse in front of your eyes and know that if it wasn't for the NHS they might have to die there.
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I think the 1950s were pretty much still a snakepit mentality. The advent of phenoziathines in th 50s gave rise to a mentality of remission/recovery. by the mid 60s a great deal of attitude change and treatment innovations resulted in a much better attitude towards the mentally ill. In the 70s, it was considered acceptable, therauputic, even fashionable, to invite the patients into the lives of staff members. Psychiatrists were as guilty as anyone else; bringing Paranoid Schizophrenics home to meet thier families including thier children! Then a dating club mentality formed and staff and patients routinely dated, and many married each other. I have nothing against the latter. Seems natural to me, as both staff and patient learn a lot about each other in a short period of time, and in a tense environment. Liability became a major issue, and that is why such relationships are frowned upon. You could get fired. But if you approach management and talk about love, accomodations like transferring the staff member to another area are sometimes made. The last 25 years has seen a startling development, mental health facilities and treatment centers are flooded with patients/residents/clients, who work in a mental health setting themself, and know the system has evolved into a vacation. After all, there's movie night, bowling day, vending machines, well stocked kitchens on the unit that patients can access 24/7. There's scattergories, charades, videogames, and passes - to name but a few of the amnenities. What has not changed is the storage and maintenence mentality seen in state hospitals, and selected VA medical facilities that are NOT real hospitals. Most VA hospitals are the most high tech clinics in the world, and always on the cutting edge of advancements in everything, but some are hidden in rural areas where the sickest of the sick get less treatment than anyone else. Since the mid 80s, an increasing number of thieves, sex-offenders, and people on power trips have found a cozy niche working in mental health facilities.  I hope this helps some.