Reply #67: well, it's still the wrong way, and still a rights violation [View All]

[iverglas]

If we made doing something bad for yourself a crime so we could conduct interventions, well, somoking would be a crime. Isn't this just the sort of thing that's frowned on around here?

This always strikes me as another of those interesting blind spots. Like "felons" not being permitted to vote. It's how we does it, it's how we always done it, and it works fer us. Never mind that it violates important rights.

Involuntary confinement, if that's what's truly needed, can be arranged very easily without dragging the criminal justice system into it at all, or dragging the individual into the criminal justice system. We have involuntary commitment here, and we have no criminal offence of attempting suicide.