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If this was a mental illness issue and we agreed to provide better or universal mental health care, how would one have everyone who needed treatment submit to evaluation and treatment? Assuming we agreed upon and used professional guidelines to evaluate people's mental health.

Would people be coerced? Would it be voluntary? If voluntary, I suspect only a fraction of those who had serious issues would seek help. On the other hand, there would be serious issues with legally compelling people to be treated involuntarily, if they have not violated nay other major laws which would make their treatment compulsory.

>>mc32+(OP)
A consultation with a mental health professional could be ethically made mandatory in the same way that background checks or eye examinations are made mandatory in an ethical manner. Requiring everyone to get their eyes checked would be unethical and probably illegal, but requiring people to get their eyes checked before being licensed to pilot a giant piece of metal down city streets is a-okay.