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And these qualities are hardly unique to Terry Davis - there are lots of people with untreated mental illnesses who refuse help and end up living the kind of wandering, homeless lifestyle that risks their own lives, as well as the lives and property of other people they may come into contact with. Terry Davis was just also internet-famous for his esoteric operating system.

There's no non-coercive way to treat a mentally ill person who doesn't want to be treated. I am in favor of treating some mentally ill people coercively regardless, in cases where the mental illness puts other people at risk of harm. But I don't claim that this is primarily for their benefit.