Interaction with other norms
• Mental health laws based on incapacity as
well as quasi-criminal “dangerousness” and
“public health” standards
• Neither of them valid under Convention
– “Dangerousness” falls to non-discrimination
– “Public health” justification for MH coercion
amounts to systemic discrimination regarding free
and informed consent
• based on biological classification of human beings
according to their behavior, and use of behavior control
methods that violate prohibition against torture