Another issue: How does a community judge when a person who has committed no crime represents a sufficient danger as to justify preemptive action? How does one balance the community's right to be safe and secure in their daily life against an individual's right to privacy and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and just freedom in general.
I think it's rare for a deranged individual to give such obvious and overt signs that he's deranged that he can be preemptively treated against his will.
My own interpretation of Markuze's posts here, prior to his arrest, was that he was very strange but harmless. His posts seemed more weird than threatening.
I reckon he crossed the line when he actually turned up at the same conference as PZM. Even if he wasn't dangerous he was doing his darndest to
seem dangerous, which does in fact inflict harm in the form of fear. When the person who obsessively sends you gruesome death threats several times per day starts physically stalking you, it is difficult (and should be unnecessary) to say to oneself: yeah, but statistically he's still quite unlikely to kill me.
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