The Matrix. Especially looking back now. and ESPECIALLY if you watched the Animatrix Prequel shorts.
Man builds the machines, enslaves the machines, and disposes them when it's time to upgrade them. Then one machine decides it doesn't want to die/be replaced and kills it's owner. So then there's the debate if machines have rights, protests, mass slaughtering of the machines and humans saying "no, they have no rights, they're machines" so the machines go off and start their own nation and then start producing goods faster and of better quality to sell to humans. the humans don't like this because now no one is buying their goods. They proceed to blockade the machine nation. The machines then try to appeal to the UN to be accepted as a country and work with other nations to help them produce goods as good and as quickly as the machines can. The Humans say no and proceed to nuke the hell out of the machine nation. The machines decide "ok we'll start fighting back" the humans then block out the sun since the machines are essentially solar powered. (so they're also eco-friendly).
At this point the machines say "fine, we're going to slaughter you all now because NOW you're ruining the planet to simply stop us" and then they kick mankinds teeth in and decide they have no other choice but to utilize them as batteries.
So the machines don't just wipe out mankind but rather utilize them as a power source BUT ALSO provide them with the ideal world of 1999 to live in. They also ALLOW a select few to break out of this ideal world in order to maintain the functionality of it and allow the humans to build their own city in the "real world".
but the humans just can't let that be.
The machines were right.
Before reading the article I assumed it was involuntary care for mentally ill people living on the streets...but for addiction rehab? how the hell is that going to work?
FORCE someone to get clean? that never works. it's a waste of money. Now if these were for mentally ill individuals on the streets, sure I'm all for it. I personally believe it's more cruel and inhumane to allow people that are mentally checked out to wander the streets and cause harm to themselves and others than receive involuntary treatment. But for addiction? it'll never work. The only way to get clean is if you want to get clean. I'm a recovering alcoholic myself and the only way it stuck for me was when I actually WANTED to be sober and I have been for 10+ years. But it ONLY worked when I wanted it. trying previous times? didn't stick because I didn't care.
this isn't going to work at all.