Why would you not have a problem with the anti-vax movement spreading disinfo and getting kids killed of diseases that had been eradicated in the country?
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery?"
Chains and slavery being a bit overstated, but hey that's the quote.
In the long term, those few lives matter less than the billions - trillions - uncountable quadrillions - who benefit from free, Liberal cultures (capital L, not lowercase). This is not because the ends justify the means; they do not -- it is because the freedom to choose, even your own death by Darwin, is a pillar of a free society.
> freedom to choose, even your own death by Darwin, is a pillar of a free society
People who don't want to stay home anymore are not a danger to themselves only, I could not care less if they die, I actually prefer if they do. But by not following distancing orders they are a danger to others.
As of touting this as some kind of Freedom Fight is mostly a load of bullcrap. What you are missing in your perfect world is that we should not tolerate the intolerant.[0]
You want to risk your life, go at it, but you should not be allowed to risk the lives of others.
> People who don't want to stay home anymore are not a danger to themselves only, I could not care less if they die, I actually prefer if they do. But by not following distancing orders they are a danger to others.
So are all the people who get the flu every year. Oh by the way which yearly kills more than has been killed yet by COVID. Guess we should lock up all those war criminals!
> What you are missing in your perfect world
lol... gotta love HN commenters who live such cozy lives that they have absolutely no perspective. Check your privilege, is that the saying? THIS is what your "stay at home" order has caused: https://reportediario.com.mx/noticias/vallarta/filas-de-cien....
THIS is what I live around. THIS is what I see. Hundreds of thousands, millions, starving and dying, so that comfortable Americans and Europeans can posh off about how "go out and you'll kill people". You don't give a shit about people ACTUALLY suffering. Just the hypothetical ones your brain tells you about, but you don't even care about the same hypothetical ones who carry the flu.
