Yes, that’s one of the consequences of stupid choices. The point for a society to figure out is how to contain those consequences to those who made a stupid choice.
I do not accept we need measles and polio outbreaks so casually.
But the fact is, many businesses won’t bother unless it’s really important, like if there’s a breakout or something of a specific disease.
So you accept that there’s not going to be vaccine checking at every bar, hotel, movie theater, museum, etc because that’s impractical. Also a privacy nightmare. But if you’re not making people get vaccinated then you’re just asking for an outbreak. And now people who are worried about that (eg: immunocompromised people, the elderly), their freedom is massively curtailed.
Prisoners should be able to refuse to go to a private prison and the state should accommodate that.
Prisoners are not typically high on the list of people whose rights and dignity are respected. Especially not when profit is to be made. Your position is wildly unrealistic.
Sure, and that’s why safety equipment and preventative medicine is so important. But at the end of the day, it’s my life to throw away, and nobody else has any valid claim to my education, abilities, etc. Someone who cares about those around them will take the necessary precautions to preserve their life for the benefit of those around them, but that decision should remain theirs.
Disagree. Society has an interest in your well being. I also do not accept that the individual is the most important thing, and their desires are paramount. You probably also don’t, at least in some cases, unless you think people should be able to shit everywhere they want and set off dirty bombs for fun in urban areas.
Additionally, if you decide to not wear a bike helmet, get in an accident with me, and then die because your bare skull hit the concrete, then you’ve inflicted that trauma on me. Thanks. I would like to be free of that.
I think our axioms are too different for us to easily have a meaningful conversation. I view your position as fundamentally selfish and too focused on the individual. The supremacy of individual freedom above all else is no way to build a society. I accept that you likely have a fundamental, perhaps visceral, rejection of my worldview.
I also would like to add that there are probably things we do agree on, and I appreciate you taking the time to write all of these replies. I don’t think I have it in me to keep going, though.
you accept that there’s not going to be vaccine checking at every bar, hotel, movie theater, museum, etc because that’s impractical. Also a privacy nightmare.
Yes, it’s impractical, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a privacy nightmare. It would be easy to build an app that merely confirms whether a given vaccine has been taken (esp useful in a pandemic), without revealing any other info. The issue is getting doctors and stores to use it. But if there’s enough demand, it would happen.
The more likely scenario is what we already have: core services like public schools would require vax info when you register.
if you’re not making people get vaccinated then you’re just asking for an outbreak.
How so? It’s exactly what we’re doing now, and outbreaks are rare and very localized. It turns out the quiet majority finds value in vaccines.
What we should be working on is increasing access to vaccines. It’s currently pretty good, but it can be expensive depending on your insurance (or lack thereof). If we want more people vaxxed, the easiest way to do that is to make it free and available at any pharmacy, just like with COVID.
Prisoners are not typically high on the list of people whose rights and dignity are respected
And that should absolutely change. I hate pretty much everything about our criminal justice system, and one of my big ticket items is giving prisoners more choice in their incarceration.
I obviously don’t have any power to enact any of the changes I’ve discussed, but if I could pick one, it would be prisons. I think we should:
Have more private prisons, and compensate based on recidivism rate, not beds; lower recidivism means more money
Give prisoners the option of where to go; so operate it kind of like charter schools and allow prisoners to apply; certain prisons would specialize in different types of rehab
Legalize recreational drugs and eliminate any prison time and scrub records to drastically cut pointless incarcerations
That should transition prisons to specialized rehab centers instead of just places to keep people, which should result in lower overall prison population. Traditional prisons would exist for the truly dangerous criminals, but others would have options.
unless you think people should be able to shit everywhere they want and set off dirty bombs for fun in urban areas.
Your rights end where mine begin. Those two you mentioned directly impact others and thus aren’t moral.
The small possibility of me dying in front of you does not, by itself, cause you any harm. The possibility of trauma is not itself a violation of your rights. I could understand me slaughtering animals in public being an issue, but the mere chance of me getting seriously or fatally injured in public isn’t one.
I accept that you likely have a fundamental, perhaps visceral, rejection of my worldview.
And you’d be right, both on this point and on the point of us agreeing on a ton of things. However, those aren’t what we’re talking about, but I’ll list a few just in case you’re curious:
UBI/NIT - employer individuals to leave bad employers and either find a better one or make their own work; many don’t because they’re too worried about putting food on the table
end the death penalty - I believe every individual is redeemable, so the death penalty is strictly immoral
fully remove oversight for abortion in the first trimester on privacy grounds - this is the time women have miscarriages, and it’s nobody’s business whether she had a miscarriage or an abortion; beyond that, women are immune from prosecution for seeking or attempting an abortion, the only possible criminals are doctors providing illegal care (if states choose to ban it)
completely eliminate qualified immunity - cops should be held to the same standards as private citizens
All of this comes from a place of putting individual rights first, but it’s entirely reasonable to arrive there by other means.
Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day. I’m sure we both share similar frustrations, we just have different limits on what we’re willing to do to address them.
I do not accept we need measles and polio outbreaks so casually.
So you accept that there’s not going to be vaccine checking at every bar, hotel, movie theater, museum, etc because that’s impractical. Also a privacy nightmare. But if you’re not making people get vaccinated then you’re just asking for an outbreak. And now people who are worried about that (eg: immunocompromised people, the elderly), their freedom is massively curtailed.
Prisoners are not typically high on the list of people whose rights and dignity are respected. Especially not when profit is to be made. Your position is wildly unrealistic.
Disagree. Society has an interest in your well being. I also do not accept that the individual is the most important thing, and their desires are paramount. You probably also don’t, at least in some cases, unless you think people should be able to shit everywhere they want and set off dirty bombs for fun in urban areas.
Additionally, if you decide to not wear a bike helmet, get in an accident with me, and then die because your bare skull hit the concrete, then you’ve inflicted that trauma on me. Thanks. I would like to be free of that.
I think our axioms are too different for us to easily have a meaningful conversation. I view your position as fundamentally selfish and too focused on the individual. The supremacy of individual freedom above all else is no way to build a society. I accept that you likely have a fundamental, perhaps visceral, rejection of my worldview.
I also would like to add that there are probably things we do agree on, and I appreciate you taking the time to write all of these replies. I don’t think I have it in me to keep going, though.
Yes, it’s impractical, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a privacy nightmare. It would be easy to build an app that merely confirms whether a given vaccine has been taken (esp useful in a pandemic), without revealing any other info. The issue is getting doctors and stores to use it. But if there’s enough demand, it would happen.
The more likely scenario is what we already have: core services like public schools would require vax info when you register.
How so? It’s exactly what we’re doing now, and outbreaks are rare and very localized. It turns out the quiet majority finds value in vaccines.
What we should be working on is increasing access to vaccines. It’s currently pretty good, but it can be expensive depending on your insurance (or lack thereof). If we want more people vaxxed, the easiest way to do that is to make it free and available at any pharmacy, just like with COVID.
And that should absolutely change. I hate pretty much everything about our criminal justice system, and one of my big ticket items is giving prisoners more choice in their incarceration.
I obviously don’t have any power to enact any of the changes I’ve discussed, but if I could pick one, it would be prisons. I think we should:
That should transition prisons to specialized rehab centers instead of just places to keep people, which should result in lower overall prison population. Traditional prisons would exist for the truly dangerous criminals, but others would have options.
Your rights end where mine begin. Those two you mentioned directly impact others and thus aren’t moral.
The small possibility of me dying in front of you does not, by itself, cause you any harm. The possibility of trauma is not itself a violation of your rights. I could understand me slaughtering animals in public being an issue, but the mere chance of me getting seriously or fatally injured in public isn’t one.
And you’d be right, both on this point and on the point of us agreeing on a ton of things. However, those aren’t what we’re talking about, but I’ll list a few just in case you’re curious:
All of this comes from a place of putting individual rights first, but it’s entirely reasonable to arrive there by other means.
Anyway, I hope you have a fantastic day. I’m sure we both share similar frustrations, we just have different limits on what we’re willing to do to address them.