They might not, but I would start with the assumption that they could and would. My son has had too many un-empathetic workers in the mental health system. He has experienced some of their "treatments" as traumatic events. Then he's expected to accept that the traumas he's experienced were for his own good - that there was no other way of handling the immediate crisis.

It seems to me we treat people this way when we see them not as fellow humans suffering and in distress but as bags of chemicals which have got out of balance somehow.