But you could use that same logic to imprison blind people (they might not see the car coming!) and certainly to confine harmless but actively crazy people, and yet we've generally grasped that "least restrictive environment" is the goal with the mentally ill, and that blind people get to make their own choices about risks vs. safety.
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Date: 2010-06-24 03:50 pm (UTC)But you could use that same logic to imprison blind people (they might not see the car coming!) and certainly to confine harmless but actively crazy people, and yet we've generally grasped that "least restrictive environment" is the goal with the mentally ill, and that blind people get to make their own choices about risks vs. safety.