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Originally Posted by Acajack
It was arguably a classic case of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. There is no reason why the management of these institutions couldn't have been improved and safeguards to prevent abuses put in place.
Lots of aspects of human society have been fertile ground for abusers over the course of history. For the most part we didn't abolish them - we reformed them.
But not in this case, because...
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I have no faith that such places can be well-run on a large scale because there simply aren't enough good people. Orphanages
were largely phased-out for a similar reason.
I have a fair amount of experience delivering food to Medicaid-funded nursing homes and they are all horribly run. The rank-and-file workers (most of whom are women) are some of the nastiest people I've ever had to deal with. They were always trying to scam us and I have no doubt were stealing from the patients.
People want to believe that there are enough people out there to deal with the 10-20% of the population who is mentally ill or otherwise can't take care of themselves. There aren't.