And then we wonder why we have psychopaths running around, and homeless who don't want homes.
I don't know what the compassionate answer is. Freedom for the mentally ill and drug dependent? Or forced medical help? As a society, I wonder if we went too far towards asylums in the past, when we had no mental health treatments to speak of, and now, when we have better mental health treatment standards, we go too far away from asylums. (Everything is relative. I realize we still don't know how to treat many mental illnesses, and we just throw random drugs at them until one has better effects than side effects.)
The libertarian in me says freedom is paramount. The compassionate side of me wonders if that is the right move