- M1Silencer
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Should there be some form of testing that can determine if a person is mentally stable or unstable and should continue to live within society. For instance, there would be a "check-up" every couple of years or so that would test people's mental health by asking them questions and recording their responses to see if they are sane. If not, then the tests would advise the people to go to a mental institution, but if they didn't their name would be put on a database of people to observe with caution. Any purchases they make that seem to point towards hurting themselves or another person would be red-flagged and a notice would be sent out to local authorities to perhaps prevent that mentally unstable person from committing a crime. Then that person would be forced to go to an institution for psychiatric help.
But a problem with this would be if someone abused this power and claimed that certain undesirable people were mentally unstable. Then the police could just come to a person's house and take them away under the pretense that they need mental help, but in reality there is just a nefarious purpose behind it. People could potentially "disappear" for no reason other than that an anonymous source claims they are insane.
Another problem would be how would these tests even be implemented, let alone measured. Are their simple ways of determining if someone is sane or insane? Someone could just lie through all the questions asked to pass, and then go on to continue their insanity.
We still don't understand our own human brain fully, so how can we possibly measure if it is performing correctly.
I feel that simple mental competency tests would be an easy way to prevent unstable people from committing crimes, but it could lead to an authoritarian lifestyle.