Harding
Harding being voluntary is a waste of tax payers money. He didn't need to be there. He was there because he needed companionship I'm guessing
shareHe could have been paying for it himself.
shareI mean our tax dollars go to things we don't like all the time. Like political attack ads.
shareHarding is there because he is homosexual which in those days was considered a mental health disorder that could be cured. Virtually all the active men on the ward are there because they are not conventional in some way (epilepsy, anxiety, submissiveness etc) and the movie is saying that people who are unconventional in America are treated as pariahs, segregated and "worked on" by the system.
shareWell in all fairness Billy was suicidal so I can see why he was there
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