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You put up posters encouraging random people to track a paranoid mentally ill person? Did you not think that might have harmed his mental health to see those posters of himself and have people pointing him out to their friends without understanding it? It'd be creepy enough for a normal person to see such posters about themselves.

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Nah, most people are just genuinely concerned about him, especially when he disappears. I'm in China -- if I did this in NYC, I wouldn't have done it. But that type of malicious intent is far, far less here. When he's gone, there's lots of talk online about where he went and people start looking out for him. I just made a way to scale and centralize it.

You should set up some kind of tipjar so you can use donated funds to help buy him some food.

Collecting funds is quite prohibited (or heavily regulated, I should say) in China, otherwise I absolutely would.

Note to self: Do this to my brother for April Fool's Day next year

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