[rarestia]

I side with Liberty. If she’s mentally ill, then her family should commit her and let the psychological sciences figure it out.

To have a COURT say that she must be force fed is a breach of liberty and a very dangerous precedent to be setting. If a court can decide you can be force fed, what else can they decide you MUST do?

[wideminded]

If she’s mentally ill, then her family should commit her and let the psychological sciences figure it out.

To have a COURT say that she must be force fed is a breach of liberty ...

So is having someone committed.

The family probably needed the court order to keep her alive. At the present time the psychological sciences don't know precisely how to fix this, although many people with it recover from the acute phase.

[wideawake]

If she’s mentally ill, then her family should commit her and let the psychological sciences figure it out. . .

To have a COURT say that she must be force fed is a breach of liberty

First, how do you think a family goes about committing a 32 year old adult woman? They get a court order.

Second, the mentally ill are definitionally deprived of liberty. If you are incapable of making a rational decision, you are not enjoying what people commonly conceive of as liberty.

Third, there is a conceptual problem with claiming that the permanent destruction of one's own liberty while mentally incompetent is somehow an exercise of "liberty."