Assertion: decision | /r/CapableOf | refuse treatment
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text: However, for the purposes of this discussion, the notion of decisional capacity will be limited to health care contexts only; most notably, those where decisions to consent to or refuse treatment are concerned.
text: This is the ability of subjects to make health care decisions; primarily decisions to consent to or refuse treatment.
text: In this case, the outcome of the decision to refuse treatment can plausibly be said to be irrational; so irrational, indeed, that the subject should be deemed incapable to refuse treatment and the decision overruled.
text: From this it is inferred that the decisions are not the same; hence, that decisions to consent to or refuse treatment are not symmetrical.