Answer the following question in a short essay of 500 – 600 words. The ideal paper will clearly and accurately state the view of the philosophers in question, and state your own opinion of these views. Informal footnotes, if you use any, will be enough.
Are we justified in incarcerating the mentally ill before they have done anything wrong? Is your reasoning deontological or utilitarian?
Be sure to address one of the arguments given in Chapter 5):
1). The mentally ill person is more dangerous
2). We can be more certain that the mentally ill person will commit more harm than a non-mentally ill person
3). Incarceration is good for the mentally ill person
4). The mentally ill person would want to be incarcerated before thye did harm, if they were in their right mind.
we are using The text: Medical Ethics, A Very Short Introduction, second edition, Tony Hope and Michael Dunn . if you apply to it woulod be great