Jim, sure you do. But the analogy is really a poor one. Countries are held to different standards of public access. Also, nobody has the right to tell your son's friend to take X to come inside, inject this to come inside, ingest X to come inside. Maybe your home but that doesn't give anyone the right to require people to consent to inject or digest products to enter. But there are lots of other things to say regarding this analogy that is just false. Apples vs oranges.
Rereading this essay 16 months later, your defense of a great athlete’s right to determine what enters his body seems exceptionally sane and fundamentally ethical. We now know that the experimental vaccines never prevented transmission and have sometimes damaged low-risk, healthy people. Choice remains a key ethical concept.
During a period of mass hysteria and widespread social panic, you stayed cleared and sceptical. Thank you.
Thanks always for reading Eric. True. It's one piece of a puzzle - the picture being the general eroding of individual rights as primary, in favor of group rights. A step back from the universalism of the enlightenment.
Agreed. It’s both shocking and fascinating to see so many escape from personal freedom and reduce themselves to one-dimensional, obedient conformists. COvID exposed and worsened some disturbing social trends and collectivist fantasies.
How do we preserve a zone of individual space for creative living? Can our karma overcome their dogma? Will more individuals choose to savor more person moments and fewer collective fantasies? Shall we dwell in the possibilities of authentic lives?
Jim, sure you do. But the analogy is really a poor one. Countries are held to different standards of public access. Also, nobody has the right to tell your son's friend to take X to come inside, inject this to come inside, ingest X to come inside. Maybe your home but that doesn't give anyone the right to require people to consent to inject or digest products to enter. But there are lots of other things to say regarding this analogy that is just false. Apples vs oranges.
Rereading this essay 16 months later, your defense of a great athlete’s right to determine what enters his body seems exceptionally sane and fundamentally ethical. We now know that the experimental vaccines never prevented transmission and have sometimes damaged low-risk, healthy people. Choice remains a key ethical concept.
During a period of mass hysteria and widespread social panic, you stayed cleared and sceptical. Thank you.
Thanks always for reading Eric. True. It's one piece of a puzzle - the picture being the general eroding of individual rights as primary, in favor of group rights. A step back from the universalism of the enlightenment.
Agreed. It’s both shocking and fascinating to see so many escape from personal freedom and reduce themselves to one-dimensional, obedient conformists. COvID exposed and worsened some disturbing social trends and collectivist fantasies.
How do we preserve a zone of individual space for creative living? Can our karma overcome their dogma? Will more individuals choose to savor more person moments and fewer collective fantasies? Shall we dwell in the possibilities of authentic lives?
Unclear on why he is not wanting to be vaxxed!