A key issue in our society is the interplay between personal freedom and public safety. At what point does protecting the community outweigh the rights of the individual? This didn’t used to be a problem because, for a very long time, no one had any rights. All you had in the way of power or property was what you could wrest from your neighbors by strength of arms, ties of blood or sheer cunning.
Life was cheap. Individuals who were inconvenient, annoying or dangerous had a way of just disappearing, be it a bastard baby, a feeble- minded cousin or a psychotic ruler. Through some combination of neglect and violence, the “undesirables” were weeded out. These included most of those people who would today be deemed mentally ill. It was savage and inefficient.
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