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> It is humane for everyone if the mentally ill are forced to get treatment or confined if they refuse it. Are there any other situations when we can forcibly act to protect you from yourself, or is mental illness the only situation where this is permitted? Should society be allowed to forcibly restrict you from engaging in other forms of self-damaging behaviour? Smoking, drinking, gambling, being stoned all day erry day, riding an ATV without a helmet..? Not getting vaccinated against a deadly, contagious respiratory disease, because you think the vaccine[1] is a 5g chip created by Bill Gates as part of a secret mass eugenics program? Not allowing a doctor to operate on you or your child, because you believe that a blood transfusion is a sin? There's a wide, wide spectrum of a gray zone here, and that's why drawing a hard line through it is not the clear-cut easy moral answer that you think it is. It's precisely why society tends to draw soft lines through it, leans towards encouraging and discouraging over compelling, and why it won't intervene in response to most forms of self-harm. [1] That's a pretty big one. If we're going to forcibly medicate people for their own good, universal vaccination seems to be a much more obvious place to start. Debilitating side effects of vaccines are negligible compared to those of brain pills, and the overall ROI, both personally, and to the people around you is fantastic. |