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

[Dude VanWinkle]

On Dec 17, 2007 4:10 PM, Brian Loe <knobdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?


We just care why they want it, not what they want :-)

-JP