We'll have to agree to disagree, apparently, because I think those of us who can do it are obligated to stand up for those who can't. My mental health has been in the dumper for weeks, but I'm not (yet) so incapacitated that I can't get ticked off and translate it into action somehow. If we don't stand up for one another when stuff like this is allowed to happen, who's going to do it? I guarantee you it will not be the social service system, and there are a multitude of stories on this site alone of the ways people's families and friends have dismissed their illnesses.

Even if all you do is write a letter to a legislator, it's doing something positive for people who almost always are denied a voice. To me, that's obligatory, but that's just me, I guess. In the meantime, I reserve the right to continue getting steamed about this kind of stuff.