New trend in punsihment?

[Dr Unne]

Garland: I guess I assumed that criminals get different treatment than non-criminal mental patients. I don't know I guess.

Anaralia: That's interesting. If someon truly lacks the capacity for reason, I don't even know that you can call that person a human being. I don't really care what happens to them, so long as they're kept away from society and kept from harming others.

[Garland]

I don't know either. I have a mental image of drooling, screaming, Einstein-haired psychos in straightjackets confined to padded rooms. I imagine minor patients live in those enclosed garden communities where everything is peaceful and everyone is drugged to a stupor. I don't actually know if there's a difference in treatment. I only assumed that it must be pretty similar for those of the worst condition. Maybe you're right. I'll have to look it up sometime.

[Silent Warrior]

... War Angel, Anaralia... MENTAL care, not MEDICAL. I believe there's half a world of difference between those two, and let's keep it like that. Otherwise, you'll give people strange ideas.
LH brought up the first catch 22-reference I could discern, three cheers for... um... him? It? Her? ... THEM?? *Reads some more* And a good pat on the back for Big D.

Added intel: Just a day or two after I posted this topic, I saw in the news that one of the suspects confesses beating one of the girls, "but didn't mean for them to die". If he actually DID kill them is as of yet unknown to me. And now a debate about TV-violence is yet again sparking up, it seems... I suppose the likes of GTA3 is becoming an endangered species over here.

And this mental care, I get the distinct impression they ARE kept somewhat isolated (a better translation: enclosed psychiatric care) - me gov'ment ain't COMPLETELY daft, ye ken. Well, not yet, I should add.