NoName
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Quote (stevestory @ Dec. 31 2015,03:36) | I have some sympathy for Gary. If America had decent health care, Gary would be getting some genuine help. |
I disagree, vehemently. You can't help people who refuse to recognize that they have a problem -- not without severely violating medical and personal ethics. I do not believe Gary should be forcibly treated -- unlike Edgar P, I don't think Gary is technically diseased, physically or psychologically. Changing any aspect of America's health care system isn't going to have the tiniest impact on Gary's condition. Above all else, Gary is harmless. His ideas could be, if there were the slightest hope of anyone taking them seriously, but Gary himself is the best guarantor that such shall never happen. Gary, and his inability raise any of his notions to level of actual conceptual clarity, serves as the final bulwark against the propagation of his nonsense. He is indeed a lunatic, but in the colloquial sense, not the diagnostic. He is an utter failure, an incompetent thinker (when he rises the level of actual thought), a persistent fool and blunderer. But until he sees that there is a problem, there are nothing but problems, with every aspect of his notions, his output, he's not going to change. And no one has the right to force change on him just because of complete unanimity of opinion that he is a failure, an incompetent thinker, incapable of simple logic, still more incapable of linking logic to evidence, and exhibits the worst case of fulminating logorrhea this side of Gordon Mullings. The only one who can help Gary is Gary, and he is obviously unwilling. So be it.
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