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hey fellas....save your mindless comments for myspace

Well put Dustin! People have no respect for human suffering or photography.

beautiful work! respectfully done!

"Navi, Sorry you cant seem to understand my statement. "

And I'm sorry you can't seem to understand what it's like to have mental disease. :) Unfortunately, ignorance isn't one of them.

"Navi, are you suggesting someone with a mental disorder should not be treated as a criminal, even if they have committed (and been found guilty of) a crime?"

I am merely suggesting that anyone who suffers from mental disease deserves to be treated for it in some way, shape, or form. Chances are, if they weren't mentally unstable in the first place, they wouldn't have committed the crime. If they suffer from mental disease, did their "true" selves, their rational selves, commit the crime? So honestly, what good does it really do to toss them in a prison cell? Do you really want your tax dollars going towards what may actually be construed as inhumane treatment? I don't.

For the record, attempted suicide is a crime.

this place could be put to a lot better use!
local kids would love it.

the sunlight makes the wood look great.
nice shot!!

it looks as if the trees are about to take over!!

great shot.so very basic.

Just what i was going to say Nicky.They could still be used with no problem!!

As an innocent bystander- not in the medical pro. - just a big fan of the site. I have read almost every post good and bad in the arguement of the torture and poor treatment in these places, from a laymans standpoint here is my opinion.

Long before asylums and hospitals came to be, "strange" and "unusual" practices took place in the name of medical science , without these "torturous" or "odd experiments" how could the medical field have become so helpfull???? So it just stands to reason that of course the practices would continue when doctors began looking into the function of the mind. It is just the way humans learn- trial and error- we learn from our mistakes -thats just the way it is. What we think at one time is the way things should be done, may turn out to be wrong but from that we learn that the right way . It is the learning process plain and simple.
So Lynne you are 100% right in your last post, you just say it very eloquently and passionately, but you are right!!!
I am so tired of reading "people were tortured here" "people were mistreated here". It gets old, of course the bad is sensationalized, but what about all the good that has happened in the name of medical science, you hardly ever hear of that.

Sorry for the rant, and it may be a little out of place here, but I had to say my peace on the subject. I have a child with a life long medical ailment and if the medical world needs to do some sort of experiments to find a cure then so be it, I would like to see my child healthy and well someday by whatever means necessary, and I hold that opinion to the practices they used in the treatment of the mentaly ill then and now. There needs to be a way to make people better, and without experiment we can't learn, I bleieve it is as simple as that. Like Lynne says over and over what was practiced then, seems bad now, and what is practiced now will seem bad in the future. But the medical field will have advanced ( like it is always does through experimentation) and thats a good thing.

Okay now I'm really done with my rant *phew*

Navi, Sorry you cant seem to understand my statement. People with mental disorders need to be treated humanly.
Criminals belong in jail Period.

All I can think is... board park!

Oooh baby, Oooh baby.

PML I was looking at the pic thinking this is cleaner than my bathroom, then read your comment.

"dirt just doesn't like minty-sea-foamy green and pale-promdress peach." Hahaha even the mold won't grow on it. You know, if you wait long enough, it'll become the fashion again.