You keep yip-yapping about how these folks have to commit a crime first and I am telling you that they, indeed, have, by the time we start to look at them from a psych point of view. Generally numerous crimes, trips to the taxpayer-funded public hospital after they hurt themselves, where often they are referred to the taxpayer funded mental hospital, and then kicked to the curb after a bit.
Meanwhile, perfectly able folk crap out generations of loafing malcontents and we pay for that, too. Frankly, I'd rather pay to see that the mentally ill (and truly unable to care for themselves vis a vis the unwilling) are squared away.
Oh, and Jefferson cribbed that from Locke, of "life, liberty, and property" fame.
The point is very simple:
1. You do not have a right to a high value to your real estate or business. Same as why it would be immoral to beat up your neighbor for painting his house bright pink.
2. Protection of property is not the first, nor even the second, priority of a jut government as per the Founders.
3. It is a man's sacred right - until he's been
proven to be mentally incompetent (a far higher standard than simply mentally ill - to live his life as he sees fit. If he chooses to become a disgusting, rotting wreck, and lie on the ground and sneer at the well-employed tie-wearing nine-to-fiver, that is his sacred right. Indeed, if eventually the vagaries of that life catch up to him and he is about to die of them, it is his sacred right to flip the finger to the nearest nine-to-fiving, church-going, well-paid and well-shaved pillar of the community, and finally expire.
Were I to kidnap a homeless man off the street, and lock him in the best hotel room in the nation, where he'd receive the best food in the world, it would be that homeless man's right to slit my throat and break out of the hotel and flee, and I doubt any court would convict him.
