To save you from yourself, at least. So they bodged together a solution that would remove the offender from society and prevent him from possibly infecting others.

As a mentally ill person who’s worked as an EMT and seen this mentality put into action, all I can say is fuck you. Mental illness is not fucking infectious, and that kind of rhetoric is obviously designed to justify oppressing the people most in need to help.

I still have difficulty talking to therapists and get panic attacks about being forcibly institutionalized because some cop or burned-out psychologist decided it would be for “my own good”, because I saw it happen to others dozens of times and it horrifies me.