The problem is that, given this division of public opinion and the fragility of the 'governance architecture', it is difficult to expect the accumulation of sufficient political will for radical changes in the regulation of the matter in the short term. [...] This puts a huge responsibility on the shoulders of the court and the experts called as experts in cases of incapacity and compulsory treatment under the Health Act, because – as has already been made clear – the issue is not only the (current) mental state of the person, but the (deficits of) the social environment, which is part of ourselves. [...] All this is the flip side of the same medal of the inter-esses: if personality is built through its ties to society to create the conditions for the expression of creativity, entrepreneurship, initiative, then depersonalization in the barracks, the hospital, the insane asylum and the prison systematically cuts these ties to produce subordination, passivity and resignation. [...] Elias39 would be relevant as part of the frame of reference of a deeper interdisciplinary study of attitudes towards restraint, why Elias is concerned with the transition from the spontaneous, the wild, the unrestrained, the natural (which is regulated by external punishments) to the "civilized" – to self-control, to education, to rule-following (the internalization of the norm, the "love of rules. [...] The isolation was unbearable and confronted him with the alternative of either ridding himself of the burden of his own freedom by indulging in a new kind of dependence and subjugation, or continuing on the path towards the attainment of positive freedom based on the exclusiveness and individuality of the human person.' Taken to the extreme, this tendency to flee from freedom produces the totalita.
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