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Originally Posted by Undertoad
This line of reasoning is extremely offensive to the mental health community and its patients. You may want to apologize.
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For saying that they are needed? After hearing the backstories of some of these recent massacres, that really appeared to be an issue.
I'm not being trivial here. There is a point at which the ease of access to healthcare for someone else affects me. It becomes more enlightened self-interest than pure altruism. Firearms are an extreme example, but there are also strangers whose lives intersect and affect my own. Companies make a big deal about impairment due to recreational drugs, because an intrusive drug test and a 'drug free' sticker is cheap. They don't say anything about how a person's mental state might affect their performance or interaction with me.
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