[ExI] Basic Income - Basic Housing?

[Kelly Anderson]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com>wrote:

>   In the end, I agree with you. We should be judged by how we treat these
>> people. But providing care to those who want it and forcing care on someone
>> who just wants to be left alone are two very different things. It does get
>> complicated when the person suffers from a paranoia. If I were homeless,
>> for example, I might not want ANY kind of government help. It would be too
>> easy for me to slip into that kind of paranoia. I'd probably walk to some
>> place warm and just do my best on my own. I'm not terribly mentally ill. ;-)
>>
>
> If you developed a mental illness which would cause you to suffer
> frightening delusions and hallucinations which would lead you to become
> destitute and homeless, and there was a treatment for this which would
> return you to your normal self but which, in your psychotic state, you
> would refuse, would you want to be treated against your will?
>

The short answer, and this is a tautology logically based upon your
question, is no.

Unless you are asking the me now, the sane me, if I would want to be
treated in the future, the insane me. In that case, the personal answer is
"I don't know." I suppose that is what a medical power of attorney is for.
If my trusted partner thought I should be treated against my will, then she
should be able to. If I can convince her at the time not to treat me, then
she wouldn't. Is that a cop out?

-Kelly
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