• stoly@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Few people are required reporters and those will be medical workers, public school employees, and people who work for universities for the most part. Calling 911 will get your friend shot by the police in the worst case, and traumatized and in debt in the best case.

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        7 months ago

        Whatever I feel like. If I care for someone you better believe I won’t call authorities and make their life worse while destroying our relationship.

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          7 months ago

          Kinda sounds like you don’t have an answer.

          Sure, if your bestie is having a tough time then of course you’ll talk to them and do whatever it takes not to call EMS.

          If it’s a “casual acquaintance” as I said your options kinda diminish.

          I called EMS for my neighbor once. A few days later his mother came to thank me profusely.

          I’m not in the US though so things work a bit differently here.

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            7 months ago

            They are still traumatically carting people away, depriving them of liberty, and not really helping.

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              7 months ago

              Obviously the “not really helping” is the critical part of that statement.

              In many cases they help a great deal.

              “Depriving people of liberty” is also an appeal to emotion. While that does happen briefly in some cases, it’s not really the norm. I’m sure you’ll find that any one in healthcare is only going to do that if the patient is at risk of harming themselves or others. The alternative is allowing people the liberty to harm themselves or others.

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                    7 months ago

                    There’s nothing edgy. If someone is suffering enough to want to leave then it’s cruel to force them to stay.