Observation from a few weeks in psychiatry: there is a fuzzy line that lies between the humane treatment of individuals suffering from dysfunctional minds and the indirect sanctioning of public intolerance.
Arguable - 'pathology' is defined by the majority.
In a crazy world where people are allowed to drown in their sadness, embrace their natural inclinations to be monolithically inert and liberally express florid episodes of psychosis and mania so as to colour the daily fabric of social interactions - would it be any worse than what we have now i.e. this mindless herd-like subscription to a tempered-beige-existence for fear of a morsem of chaos...
We could start with trains for instance and litter these often mundane transit moments with crazy people with a publicly endorsed license to be nuts without fear of retribution. Then maybe as an audience we could learn and grow a bit from the experience and leave the trains with a desire to advocate the re-titration of dosing regimens in psychiatric illness, so as to banish the excess attributed wholly to social intolerance.
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