So far here, no one has mentioned or sought to amplify that the recently passed New York law recklessly tramples on the previously sacrosanct ethical area of the knowledge open to your doctor, psychiatrist, priest, or husband/wife which has always been considered a "privileged communication."
This is a very deep and dangerous trespass of an individual's personal right to professional privacy.
This is exactly why the medical professional must take the route of involuntary commitment if his judgment indicates this is the only route to protect both the individual and the community, as well as his/her own reputation when no other choice is open.
This New York law must be judged unconstitutional immediately, and its authors disciplined, as well.
Don't you think this upsets long-held protections for all three unalienable rights: life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness?
of course it does. but we're in a post-liberty country now.safety of the sheeple trumps freedom,comrade.