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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (53745)	8/3/2002 4:22:47 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 82486

Actually I don't believe we do lock up the mentally ill preemptively. It is quite difficult to get someone committed before they have done something to get themselves committed. Not even a relative can have you committed anymore. I think you might be able to commit yourself- but the question would be, where to? There are not enough psych beds, or so I have been told. Cannot say I've looked into it much, but aside from the hospitals for the criminally insane, I don't think there are places to PUT people even if you could preemptively lock them up- which you no longer can.

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (53745)	8/3/2002 4:31:13 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Oh but the rich and famous does fly. You've only given one little example. On average the rich and famous have better legal help, and more access to all avenues of assistance. Of course it makes a difference, and the rich are different. That doesn't mean there would never be an example of a rich man being held accountable, but in general, as a class, there is less chance of it, and probably at lesser degrees. That's life. Privilege is privilege, no matter how much we'd like to believe in all that egalitarian nonsense, it is, in the end, nonsense. (Necessary nonsense, of course. Helps to keep down the revolutionaries if everyone believes the system is "fair". )