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Originally Posted by Rochard
My point is... Some people function as normal adults when the truth is they are mildly mentally retarded.
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Sums up an awful lot of people on GFY.
We see a lot more fucked up people in society these days partially because much of the funding that used to go in to the mental health care system has been cut back - forcing more mentally ill people out on to the streets and in to the public eye.
I also blame an increasing lack of police presence on the streets. In our city you rarely see a cop on foot patrol in the downtown core. And any time you call the police with the need to see an officer, the typical response from dispatch is, "All our officers are busy at the moment...it'll be about two hours."
So fucked up people are enabled to act fucked up with little or no fear of legal consequences.
We also have fucked up kids giving birth and raising children - who were never brought up properly by their own parents. So the situation propagates itself with each successive generation.