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Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by tptacek on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @08:39PM (#10781527)
The plaintiff in this case is a serial molester of young children, convicted twice, paroled, and sent back to prison when he acknowledged contact with two kindergarten-aged children (a grave violation of the terms of his parole) and admitted to considering molesting them.

There's not much more justice in committing him involuntarily, nor would we prefer to incarcerate him for the rest of his life, if we can find other ways to prevent him from coming into contact with children.

Re:EFF to Court: Lifetime GPS Tracking Violates the Fourth A... by belorn on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @06:03AM (#10782829)
> There's not much more justice in committing him involuntarily

In what way are you describing a healthy person? Would we call a person as being healthy if they had a problem with being aggressive, repeatedly committing assault, convicted several times, and admitting that they can't control their aggression and intentionally goes and look for people to beat up?

I think such person is likely to have a medical condition, psychological or actually brain damage, and treatment (involuntarily if needed) is best for both the individual and society. Trying to "find other ways to prevent them for coming into contact with people" would be horrible bad idea and unlikely to work.