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> But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge? If we are talking about very severely depressed you can't trust them to weight the risks and benefits
by type0 6y ago
> But hey, as long as it's voluntary, who am I to judge?
If we are talking about very severely depressed you can't trust them to weight the risks and benefits in their own favor, so the physicians have so big overwhelming influence on their decision that it can't be argued otherwise.
- yellowapple 6y agoThat's kind of what I was underhandedly getting at, yeah. And when applied to more debilitating conditions like schizophrenia, "consent" is even more wibbly-wobbly.