Wild that we let a person cover their vehicle with signs that essentially say "I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality", and society at large says "sure, keep operating that heavy machinery in public".
"I have severe untreated mental illness and no grip on reality"
(Emphasis mine)
That is a vast oversimplification of how people work. It is absolutely plausible to me that someone might believe obvious lies but is otherwise qualified to drive heavy machinery. Analyzing the society you live in is a totally different skill than driving.
For example, if I found out my bus driver literally believes that reptilians run the world, I would still trust them to drive my bus because driving a bus has nothing to do with lizard people. Conversely, I wouldn't trust a bus driver who agrees with everything I believe in but is currently having a panic attack.
This is important to me because I am mentally ill (treated, but mentally ill nonetheless) and autistic (which is treated like a mental illness), and this is the kind of logic that tyrants use to manufacture popular consent to further marginalize mentally ill people.
Look, I understand the line you are trying to walk here, but encountering a vehicle like this and thinking "this guy just has different ideas than me, but is otherwise trustworthy" is not rational thinking.
There's a difference between believing in conspiracy theories and covering your van with warnings about the nanochips on your body that give you computer generated diseases.
If I learned that someone suffering extreme paranoid delusions like this were in charge of operating a passenger vehicle, I would be extremely concerned with the safety of those passengers.
This isn't some unreasonable thing. I have a lot of compassion for those who suffer from mental illness, but I also think that public safety should take precedent when it is clear that someone is mentally incapable of being trusted with things like heavy machinery.
It's not the ideas expressed on this vehicle that concern me. It's that every part of this indicates a serious and untreated mental health problem. The only way my opinion could be redeemed is if the owner of the van came forward and said it was a joke, or a prop for a movie or something, because nobody with a connection to reality is going to write those things all over a truck and parade around town trying to spread the word if they aren't severely dissociated from reality.
And I cannot stress this enough, nothing about this story has anything to do with Autism. Paranoid delusions are not a typical issue for Autistic people.
The guy driving this van is probably about as functional as someone in the middle of a panic attack. Very likely erratic and on meth I would not trust to drive.
So where I live if you have a disease, physical or mental, you go to a doctor and they decide if you're ok to drive or if you need to pass an extra test first where you are judged if you're able to drive safely with whatever disabilities you have. This is besides the standard driving test and written test. Also everybody has to take lessons with a professional.
It's however not perfect because the government doesn't have access to your medical records (which is good). But that means you have to be honest on a form about your disabilities. Plus the doctor visit is not covered by insurance and costs around 200 euros.
Plus if you already have your licence there isn't really a system in place to prevent you for driving if your health declines.
There's a big difference between a danger that is tangible and immediate, such as a collision with another vehicle, and something that cannot be seen or interacted with, like electricity or a virus.
There's nothing about this that tells me this person can't drive safely.
If you're a crazy enough that this makes sense, I don't think you should be driving a vehicle even if you're technically capable of doing so. At least not until you get diagnosed and treated.
What's the alternative? Locking up people who haven't committed a crime if a doctor doesn't like what they're saying? This guy probably is schizophrenic but plenty of conspiracy theorists aren't and people saying something true but unpopular sometimes sound like conspiracy theorists.
I said we shouldn't let them drive a car, not lock them in prison. Calm down.
Ideally we would provide people like this with mental healthcare, and get them medicated so that they actually can operate a vehicle without being an inherent risk to everyone around them.
My point is that, in America, you can basically be screaming "I am extremely unwell to the point of being an elevated risk to myself and everyone around me", and our usual response is to act like everything is normal and nothing should be done.
At my high school a noticable number of students could barely read. They got passed through from a combination of parents trying to fire people if their kid is held back and teachers who either didn't care or couldn't spend the one on one time to help the kid. There was no functional system in place at my school to help kids who were borderline illiterate
Depending where this is, between that and possible mental health stuff English could be their first language
It's tragic because a lot of these people aren't just missing competent literacy but all the skills required to understand the world around them, and even worse often those ways of understanding have been replaced with religious nonsense by the people that raised them.
Imagine trying to make sense of the world when you think scientists work like preachers and prophets simply saying whatever feels right or suits the moment.
Imagine having to extend you car with plates at the top, because there is not enough room for you psychotic scribbles. Then leaving a shit ton of white space at the bottom.
It's really hard to reliably treat schizophrenics since they often don't want to be treated. I don't expect that this guy would take any pills without being forced to. (And then the medication isn't perfect.)
"Everything that you think about who you are is in fact the result of a mental defect. But, if you take these pills we can make you a different person" is the toughest sell in the world. And the psychiatric community needs to wise up to that fact.
Not at all, people believe in magic sky faires and put stickers on their car about it... Hell lots of cop cars abs court rooms have nonsense about said sky fairy on it. In bobo we trust .. Aside from scale, there's no real difference.
I'd bet money it's scitsophrenia, so no this person has no idea how crazy they look. They're just doing their part to fight back against whatever the hell they think is happening.
yeah it's usually in some basement or something instead, that's why i said you find it after they're caught.
although it would be really funny if this guy got on the news for doing something bad and his neighbor would give an interview like "wow, we had no idea..."
If you want a real trip, look into the philosophies of the creators of modern cereals, like Kellogg. Shit like Raisin Bran, Grape Nuts, and hell even Graham Crackers were invented as part of this weird moralistic pseudoscientific health crusade nonsense going around at the time. It's pretty fucking weird.
This truck is on to something. I asked my dog if she put a nano chip on my body and she said no, but it sounds like something the huskies next door would do.
I'm afraid your dog has lied to you. We had a pretty husky back when I was a kid, before she became a farmer, and I can confirm that Huskies are incredibly stupid. Your dog wants to use the Huskies as Patsy's for their own nefariousness.
It was our own fault for hinting at the fact with names like worm and bug but no matter. The plan is already in motion and cannot be stopped. Bow down peasants, bow down to your supreme software engineer overlord. We will abolish all mennial jobs with our computers and calculators. Soon you will all be forced to work from home, and you will like it.
So diseases didn't exist before computers existed or is our medical technology secretly so advanced that we cured all diseases without anyone knowing and had tons out own?
Edit: I have no idea what I was trying to say there at the end
It's pretty clear that writing is not this guy's strongest suit. Whether that's a consequence of poor education, learning disorders, or whatever schizophrenic weirdness is going on inside his brain to cause this to barf out of it, I couldn't tell you.