It&#x27;s sad what happened to the author&#x27;s son, but historically laws allowing the state to &#x27;interfere&#x27; with a person&#x27;s psychiatric care choices have had some not insignificant amount of abuse. The author seems to want to expand &quot;threat to themselves or others&quot; from the current interpretation of physical violence &#x2F; suicide to simply acting against their own best-interests, and while I understand how they came to that position, it&#x27;s far too nebulous a test to guarantee perfectly sane, rational people won&#x27;t be medicated or locked up simply for acting counter to common expectations.