Andrew Yang is right about the mentally ill

Getting homeless people off the street begins with addressing sicknesses of the mind — potentially doing so without the expressed permission of the afflicted. Andrew Yang proposed precisely this during a New York mayoral debate last week, and terminally detached activists pounced on him for it.

But Yang is not wrong. Some estimates place the proportion of homeless people suffering from severe mental illness as high as 50%. How is it compassionate to condemn those suffering in this manner to a life of filth and danger on the streets?