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Whether vaccines work or not may have a scientific answer, but it is still up to individuals to choose to use them for themselves. Similarly, people make the i
by beaner 7y ago
Whether vaccines work or not may have a scientific answer, but it is still up to individuals to choose to use them for themselves.
Similarly, people make the individual choices to purchase an apple or invite someone into their home.
EU participation is just this choice at scale, and the British people have every right to vote on it directly.
- bigbaguette 7y agoFor some vaccines, it's not an individual choice. People who choose not to use them for themselves put the rest of the population at risk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
- Aeolun 7y ago> but it is still up to individuals to choose to use them for themselves It should not be. If they represented the Brexit correctly, and instead asked the real question “Would you like your life to get worse in pretty much every possible way?”, then how many people would have voted yes?
- beaner 7y agoIt should not be up to individuals to decide whether to buy an apple or invite someone into their home? Your rephrasing is not only hyperbolic but also just a theory. Obviously people would answer no. You might assume people are dumber than they are. Perhaps they are weighing factors you are not which lead them to believe that brexit will not have the outcome you think it will.
- Aeolun 7y agoThe rephrasing has to be a bit hyperbolic to make the point I think. > Perhaps they are weighing factors you are not which lead them to believe that brexit will not have the outcome you think it will. I am almost positive this is the case, but I unfortunately doubt that most of those factors are grounded in reality. I don’t believe there are many experts that believe Brexit is in any way a good thing, and for me those opinions just hold a lot more weight than those of populist politicians.
- renaudg 7y ago> it is still up to individuals to choose to use them for themselves. Because of herd immunity, this is not just a personal choice but a public health matter. It's no more their choice to use vaccines than it is theirs to drunk drive.
- beaner 7y agoThen perhaps this is not the appropriate metaphor. Which is why I clarified with choices regarding food and shelter.