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Yeah, but there you come out the other end with your mind intact. These forcibly prescribed treatments have side effects that can do irreversible damage. Can't

• arrosenberg 4y ago
  Highly debatable that regular prison leaves your mind intact.
  • giantg2 4y ago
    Very true. Although the scope is quite different between the conditioning you face in a prison and the chemical alteration of various medications. Generally, one can be resisted or controlled, whole the other cannot.
• DoughnutHole 4y ago
  Agreed, it's basically the same argument as against the death penalty. Can't exonerate yourself if you're dead, can't be found mentally sound if you've been effectively lobotomized. Obviously psychiatry has come a long way since lobotomy, but it doesn't have a great history when it comes to treating unwilling patients. If a mentally unwell person is a demonstrated threat (ie commits crimes and harms/endangers people) the state already has the power to lock them up. In my view letting the state forcibly alter their brain and mind against their will is a bridge too far.
  • denton-scratch 4y ago
    > In my view letting the state forcibly alter their brain and mind against their will is a bridge too far. I don't share your view. It's quite clear to me that there are circumstances when a mentally-ill person benefits enormously from compulsory treatment (provided they are released; a system that rewards clinics financially for continuing to detain patients that are fit for release is a special kind of madness).