Fuck’s sake.

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    8 months ago

    Considering insane asylums don’t exist anymore that would be a no. But yes, they should probably be prescribed a mandatory stay at a psychiatric facility.

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      7 months ago

      So since insane asylum is not used anymore, you couldn’t go ahead fill it in with psychiatric facility? The pedantry never ends

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        7 months ago

        They have different connotations. The words we use are important. We don’t refer to people as “retarded” anymore either for a similar reason.