[RUEZ]

Donny_Brasco wrote:

Lock em up.

As a matter of fact, new mothers may also suffer from periods of mental illness.

Lets lock em up too.

Cops who witness brutal trauma suffer as well, PTSD...Firefighters, post office workers who sort through the endless hordes of mail that come day after day after day sometimes "go postal"...

Lock em all up. And then I'm sure you'll "predict and prevent" all of this axemurderng and chainsaw massacring.

It's always people with no rational argument who makes stupid arguments such as yours.

[Donny_Brasco]

Yogi wrote:

Donny_Brasco wrote:

Yogi wrote:

It was predicted and could have been prevented!

Really? Explain to me how you could have prevented this.


Better yet, how are you going to prevent the next one?

The determination that Li was ' a danger to himself or others' had already been made. He ran away! If the doctors at the time had obtained a 'warrant of commital' instead of just saying " Oh well. Let him go", this tradgedy could quite possibly have been avoided. How to prevent such from ever happening again there are no guarantees but does that mean that 'we' shouldn't try? Especially when a person is professionally recognized as being a danger to themselves or others.

'OTHERS'is 'you and I !

That happens a thousand times a day in Canada. The reason they didn't track him down is because they were busy dealing with other people and the police were doing things like helping you and I.

You are right, this is entirely preventable if you have unlimited resources.

It is the same old story, the public goes into a panic about one event or a few dollars misappropriated or one crazy getting out and killing someone - and we spend billions making sure that it never happens again.

When in fact if were smart about it and put some perspective on it, those billions could save multitudes of others and do better good elsewhere.

This was one psycho, and one isolated tragic event. You are a rational human being, perhaps you can understand the impossibility of predicting and preventing another such event.

As for me…the amount of time I spend worried about getting my head chopped off by a psycho is “0”, approximately the same amount of time I spend thinking about winning the 6-49. Because I know that I have better odds of winning the lottery twice in a row then getting hacked to death by a mental patient.

That is perspective and that is real.

[Donny_Brasco]

RUEZ wrote:

Donny_Brasco wrote:

Lock em up.

As a matter of fact, new mothers may also suffer from periods of mental illness.

Lets lock em up too.

Cops who witness brutal trauma suffer as well, PTSD...Firefighters, post office workers who sort through the endless hordes of mail that come day after day after day sometimes "go postal"...

Lock em all up. And then I'm sure you'll "predict and prevent" all of this axemurderng and chainsaw massacring.

It's always people with no rational argument who makes stupid arguments such as yours.

Ok, so you are saying it is rational for all of us to panic and spend our limited resources on preventing the one-in-a-billion chance that this happens again.

Of course it will happen again, but if you take into account the millions of activities each of the millions of people in Canada do every day how do you find the resources to "predict and prevent" every murder?

Seems like if there were a solution to homicide someone would have already come up with it.

Rational is finding perspective. Irrational is thinking that you can prevent random events.

[raydan]

Donny_Brasco wrote:

Of course it will happen again, but if you take into account the millions of activities each of the millions of people in Canada do every day how do you find the resources to "predict and prevent" every murder?

Seems like if there were a solution to homicide someone would have already come up with it.

Rational is finding perspective. Irrational is thinking that you can prevent random events.

Maybe some day:

Minority Report
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/