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[–] SurfinMindWaves 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I'm thinking that if someone was institutionalized for it they were probably having compulsive issues. Otherwise every single human on the planet would have been put away.

[–] LurkedForever 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Yeah, I'd like to think that too, but who knows? I just read about some doctor who was put in a mental institution because he was a crazyman, claiming that doctors should wash their hands after handling cadavers, if they were to deliver babies. I wonder (honest question; don't know the answer) what proportion of people were institutionalized based on simple non-conformity.