At the end of the day you have to look at what standard we will apply to a person before removing a Constitutionally protected right.
You can talk about mental health all you want, but it's almost always a subjective assessment. Our current system may make it hard to commit people, but that's far better than making it to easy to commit people.
We went through this on the recent death penalty thread. It's funny how all the folks who were 'fry 'em and let God sort em out' are now more on my side of things, with it being better to let 100 guilty men go free than to execute an innocent man.
You can talk about mental health all you want, but it's almost always a subjective assessment. Our current system may make it hard to commit people, but that's far better than making it to easy to commit people.
We went through this on the recent death penalty thread. It's funny how all the folks who were 'fry 'em and let God sort em out' are now more on my side of things, with it being better to let 100 guilty men go free than to execute an innocent man.