"Okay... lets say the couple were married. And if the man did this because the woman was suffering from psychosis and was on her way home to kill her children? You intervened and held the man for the police. Meanwhile the wife goes home and kills the kids. I mean, if we're going to get hypothetical lets go fullon" - You are making a multitude of assumptions. At what point is it acceptable for someone to strike a mentally ill person or any person for that matter? I merely presented you with a situation from an objective view point and you dodged the question with another. I laid out the basics of the available choices so you could see where I was going with it, not to provide a yes/no reply.