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I'm sure there's a couple companies that manufacture masks that are lobbying for this sort of thing right now. Assuming you're referring to the US federal gov
by Cyberdog 7y ago
I'm sure there's a couple companies that manufacture masks that are lobbying for this sort of thing right now.
Assuming you're referring to the US federal government, them forcing its entire population to wear an article of clothing or use a medical device (whichever way you choose to view it) would be an unprecedented breach of civil rights - not that breaches of civil rights with precedents are any more legitimate.
- lone-commenter 7y agoSo... being forced to wear clothes at all when in public is a breach of civil rights, too?
- Cyberdog 7y agoWell, technically, yes.
- lone-commenter 7y agoThis made me think of a joking short poem by Galileo Galilei, "Against the Donning of the Gown".* A passage: I now conclude, and turn to you, signior, And force you to confess, against your will, The Greatest Good will be all clothes to abhor. Think, if you please, of happy times gone by and Of times when malice and deceit were still unknown, And things under the stars went hand in hand; You will then see that, not only when alone, But all the time, in rain and weather fair Man went unclothed, both young and fully grown. Nothing at all, no knickers did they wear, So that, what good there was, but also what of bad, Was well exposed, out in the open air. * The translation is by Giovanni Bignami
- Cyberdog 7y agoI like it, but I suspect we weren't to take that poem literally. :P