Be more dangerous not to have those rules though, and dangerous for a larger number of people as well surely? The Victorian melodrama staple of troublesome wives and relatives admitted to asylums is hardly a direction we need to go in, nor is the Soviet technique of forcing dissenters to receive psychiatric "care"! I think this was very clearly the right thing since, if the chap had been capable of making an informed decision, he would have known not to sit in the carry chair.