it is a hard one.

it reminds me of my parents...

my parents found out that there were some flats owned by this place that is involved with the deinstitutionalisaion of mentally ill people.

basically, there were people living across the road from my parents who (at some point in the past) had been involountarily committed for their mental illnesses.

my parents told other people in the neighborhood about this and tried to organise a petition etc to get them out of the neighborhood.

when should we say 'this happened in the past and we should give people the change to move on' and when should be say 'huh uh, i'm not at all prepared to leave this in the past'?

hard questions...