And it raises a question: When a person has a mental illness, are people near that person required to acknowledge and accept their delusions? What about the wider society, should society play along with the mentally ill and their delusions?
This gets important in situations like that of Barbara Fried, who along with Joseph Bankman stands accused of sharing in the spoils of the FTX fraud.
When Barbara Fried wrote stuff like "The philosophy of personal responsibility has ruined criminal justice and economic policy. It’s time to move past blame" it wasn't just some intellectual talking point. As a Stanford Law Professor she was lending some academic heft to the whole "no jail, no bail" decarceration movement.
And now it appears she's outed herself as a total freakin' looney.
From The New York Post, September 26:
Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother lashed out at US prosecutors and the FTX bankruptcy estate, blasting them as “McCarthyite” over their recent legal salvos in the epic fraud case against her 31-year-old son.
Barbara Fried, who along with her son’s father was sued for “millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds” last week, also claimed that FTX’s debtors are on a “relentless pursuit of total destruction,” in an emailed statement to The New Yorker.
“It takes a lifetime to build up a reputation as honorable people,” Fried added in an email to the publication ahead of her son’s fraud trial set to kick off on Oct. 2. “It takes five minutes to destroy it, which they now have done.”....
....MUCH MORE
That statement is so out of touch with the reality of who destroyed their reputation that it can be rightly characterized as flat-out delusional. And the kicker is, she seems to think the rest of society should buy into her lunacy.
And even sicker, Barbara Fried and her ilk are the very people who think that government should be used to enforce compliance with their beliefs and delusions while at the same time advocating the police powers of the government should be used to shut down any opposition to their crazy.
And I mean crazy, crazier even than the Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Here's March's:
Government And Compelled SpeechIt seems there are people who want to use the power of government to tell you what you have to say. Which of course reminded me of something, in this case the Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
From a 2022 post:
...For a more lighthearted look at abnormal psychology there's that time a researcher in a state mental institution brought together three paranoid schizophrenics who thought they were Jesus, written up as The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. After a rather tense beginning they each became slightly more accepting of the others but eventually it all broke down:
....The relative friendliness that the men showed to each other – which Rokeach put down to the patients attempting to appear amenable, as befitting their status as the son of God – soon broke down and led to verbal and physical fights between the three "Jesuses".
In one meeting, Clyde declared that Leon "oughta worship me, I'll tell you that"........MUCH MORE, IFL Science, July 6, 2021
Now the question before us is: Should government tell citizens they must accept Clyde as he presents himself? And further, should government, through its vast array of coercive tools and techniques, require that we refer to Clyde as Jesus?
Asking for a friend.
Recently on ex-Professor Fried (I think she retired):
FTX And The Allegations Against Sam Bankman-Fried's Mom, Professor Barbara Fried
