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Originally Posted by Haven
One thing to consider:
How many of them would survive to see the year 2000?
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I would think many. Nobody will care for them anymore and I can't imagine anyone to organize a massacre of insane people. The most dangerous might be killed but that's it.
Being crazy doesn't mean you don't have the hability to survive. Moreover, some might survive among several communities. Believes might be built around the most harmless as it was the case in less technologicaly advanced societies. One community might consider that they are a link to god. Another one that they will bring luck. Yet another might simply consider that they are the bearer of some kind of wisdom.
A multi-national movie (Israel, France, Belgium, Dutch and Romania) was made in 1998 (Radu Mihaileanu) that included exactly that: the tile is "Train de vie" (Lifetrain). The action takes place in Poland (july 1941). The Nazi are slowly rounding up Jews everywhere in Poland and the village (Shtetl) elder council is looking for something to do. The solution is given by the town simple-minded (Shlomo): make their own deportation train and escape through Ukraine and Russia to Palestine. Then, the all movie is about this train's escape. I have seen this movie in Polish but I don't know if it was ever translated into english. If it was I strongly advise it, it's one of the best movie on that subject.