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If someone comes at me, or anyone else I'm around, with mudererous intent, that person will be killed.
I respect your right to defend yourself if someone is trying to kill you.
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And if I'm coming at you with medications, I'm trying to help you.
Your intent to be helpful doesn't make you so. I hope you respect my right to defend myself if someone is trying to medicate me against my will. quote: I have more right to live than you have right to refuse medication. Not enough so to guarantee your continued survival if you try to force it on me. I know some women who feel similarly about being raped again.
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So locking up felons isn't rational because we can't know what they might do? Nonsense!
It isn't legal, and locking up someone who has never committed a felony on the grounds that their state of mind indicates that they might most certainly isn't. Even people with a long history of violent crimes have the right not to be arrested once they have served their time, unless they actually do something once again.
If, let's say, I commit a violent crime, and am charged with it, convicted, and sentenced, and then later released on parole, a condition of my parole could be my agreement to take Prolixin. However, I would, under those circumstances, have the right to turn down the deal and serve out my time behind bars, after which time I have the right to walk the streets of my home town unmedicated.
Original SDMB thread - Dear Sister, please take your lithium
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