The Man in Room 117
www.nytimes.com
Andrey Shevelyov would rather live on the street than take antipsychotic medication. Should it be his decision to make?
    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      112·
      9 months ago

      With that attitude, we’d still be dealing with smallpox.

      There are definitely cases where it should be mandatory.

        • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          101·
          9 months ago

          No vaccine is 100% effective. Letting people decide to be infected means that they infect others, and kill them.

          Getting everybody vaccinated meant that the disease became extinct, so nobody dies from it anymore.

          Mandatory treatment when not getting treated can kill other people is perfectly acceptable.

                • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
                  71·
                  9 months ago

                  Your bodily autonomy ends when it starts harming other people. You don’t get to deny it to others through your decision to spread disease or leave a violence-inducing case of mental illness untreated.