[privacy] U.S. House Vote on 'Illegal Images' Sweeps in WiFi,

[Brian Loe]

On Dec 17, 2007 3:07 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> > > There's *plenty* of people
> > > who spend long periods of time in psychiatric hospitals who'd rather be
> > > there than be dead (and in fact, many of them are there *because* they
> > > tried to be dead instead of alive...)
> >
> > HUH? They'd rather be there than be dead but are there because they
> > tried to be dead?
>
> Yeah.  A lot of attempted suicides get better after treatment.  Some return
> to a mostly-normal life, some remain only partly functional and require long
> term care.

Okay. But I doubt they'd prefer to be in a mental hospital. I've
worked at a mental hospital - I don't think I met anyone that was
happy to be there, and the suicidal definitely would have preferred to
be dead.

'Course, we're not talking about people who want to end their own
lives, we're talking about people who want to hurt kids. And who cares
what they want?