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I'm sure there are ways to isolate him in say, a psychiatric hospital, where he can get treatment if there's any. Of course, if your point is that certain people are beyond help, then I guess you can always find examples where this is true and then maybe you can set certain rules specific for those extreme cases. But I think that doesn't invalidate the GP's point. In most cases helping the person recover is actually…
> I'm sure there are ways to isolate him in say, a psychiatric hospital, where he can get treatment if there's any. No, there aren't. You can't force someone into psychiatric care unless they are a danger to themselves or others and even then it's a difficult process. > But I think that doesn't invalidate the GP's point. In most cases helping the person recover is actually possible so it's worth giving that road a tr…
My point was that someone that gets arrested not 100+ times, but even 5+ or 10+ is probably someone having serious issues participating in society (assuming we are not talking about North Korea or some other dictatorship regime with absurd incarceration laws).
Sometimes the culprit is going to be a medical reason for which we can try a medical treatment, but if not, there might be other possible treatments like those used with gang members (watch "La Vida Loca" documentary).
When all this fails, then we can maybe argue that we are dealing with one of those people for which there is no possible help, but it's not until now (hopefully) that we consider some potentially uncivilized way of dealing with these extremes.
That's how I would like to (broadly) deal with these people anyway. Not saying it's what happens, unfortunately.