The Pros And Cons Of O-Outline The Options

O- Outline the Options. The Pros and Cons. Our laws provide two reasons to justify taking away someone's rights. The first is to protect the citizenry from harm "(police powers") and the second is to protect the individual from harming himself "parens patriae". On the other hand, parens patriae powers are used to help those who can’t help themselves and this is where involuntary commitment comes in.. But even someone who is dangerous, is still assumed to 'have capacity (or competence)" to make their own treatment decisions. Hence, one can be acting dangerously, yet still retain capacity. A con is do we continue to ensure that the rights of autonomy and self-determination is preserved even in cases of severe mental illness when insight or knowledge of illness s is clearly lacking and risk decompensating, increased family stress and sigma associated with mental illness and worst still potential suicide or homicides .
R- Resolve the dilemma- In applying basic ethical principle, a key issue here is that of autonomy, self-determination, non-maleficence and privacy violation. In as much as these rights are protected, however, individuals that require civil commitment lack the insight and the mental capacity to make care decision.
As a society we have an obligation to act to preserve these patients and
In evaluating the process, the right to self-determination and autonomy are at the center of this case. Is the right to self-determination equally weighted during times when mental capacity is compromised by severe mental illness, or is the relevancy of this not an issue? Because of the inherent risk associated with lack of capacity to both the individual and the society, it should not be equally weighted, in severe mental illness, but should factor the best option as the one that protects the patient with minimum infringement, but with the goal of restoring them to a state where they can sell determine for