>Then it has to go to court to hold someone against their will on a 10 day paper.
I don't quite follow that sentence... is that to get a 10 day period enforcement, or to go over 10 days? Or something else?
All in all, pretty clear, thanks! That sounds like a pretty rational set of rules. My main difficulties lie in that people seem to only care about things when they become imminent and obvious, while ignoring steady trends that are just as dangerous (or more). Legally, imminent is a nice, clean line to choose, because it's pretty clear most times. It's a line that can be protected, which is hugely important.
Ethically, I don't know, and any actions would be at odds with their free will... unless you view addictions as violations of their free will to begin with. A loss of free will that they chose, but that decision doesn't hold up against extremes like suicide. Is suicide somehow worse when it's immediate rather than over the course of, say, a year? What if they planned it for a year, and you only interrupted it at the crucial moment?
I don't quite follow that sentence... is that to get a 10 day period enforcement, or to go over 10 days? Or something else?
All in all, pretty clear, thanks! That sounds like a pretty rational set of rules. My main difficulties lie in that people seem to only care about things when they become imminent and obvious, while ignoring steady trends that are just as dangerous (or more). Legally, imminent is a nice, clean line to choose, because it's pretty clear most times. It's a line that can be protected, which is hugely important.
Ethically, I don't know, and any actions would be at odds with their free will... unless you view addictions as violations of their free will to begin with. A loss of free will that they chose, but that decision doesn't hold up against extremes like suicide. Is suicide somehow worse when it's immediate rather than over the course of, say, a year? What if they planned it for a year, and you only interrupted it at the crucial moment?