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Either people can manage themselves or they can't and the ones that can't probably need to be institutionalized for their and everyone else's safety.

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In reality it's not that binary. Plenty of people can manage themselves, except during times when they can't, and then they need help.

It'd be a good start if services let you enter emergency contact info, making escalation opt-in.

That is actually absurd. If they're insane enough to think the world is conspiring against them they wouldn't surrender that way.

No, it's not, because, again, it's not as binary as you think it is. There's plenty of people who have good times and psychotic episodes, and during the latter they can be not collected and organized enough to dismantle safety networks they put in place during good times for exactly that reason.

A feature like that definitely wouldn't help everyone, but it might help some. If it was sold as a blanket solution that would be indeed absurd however.

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