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I think schizophrenia could be prevented… most people manifest psychosis in teenage or young adult years. There is at least a good decade before it develops where something could be done, maybe. Just worth thinking about, at least.

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This is inline with what my wife thinks. She's a psychology PhD who studied schizophrenia in young adults.

The way she phrases it is that the current best guess is that schizophrenia is a developmental disease.

Knowing that it is a developmental disease does nothing to prevent / treat it. There are many diseases that we can recognize as developmental, yet do nothing to prevent (autism for example).

You're using "does nothing" to mean "doesn't automatically solve" here. Understanding how something develops gives you places to look to attempt a treatment. You don't stop sending firetrucks because some houses have burned despite firetrucks.

I'm not denying that. I'm just saying we need to formulate our laws such that they recognize that some diseases are untreatable. That means proper asylums where those who are not responding to treatment can safely live.

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