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"This is very, very close to eugenics in my book." First, it's nothing like eugenics at all. It's not the policy that is degrading your situations, it's the d
by jariel 6y ago
"This is very, very close to eugenics in my book."
First, it's nothing like eugenics at all.
It's not the policy that is degrading your situations, it's the disease.
The policy is just an official recognition of the situation.
If you have a disease like AIDS, you cannot go around knowingly affecting people.
We already have public policy in place for similar such things.
'COVID Passports' are just a mechanical effectuation of policies we already put in place.
Yes, it comes along with ethnical questions, but if it were not for people racing to get themselves infected, it would be pragmatic.
Consider your 'concern for your rights' for a moment wherein the entire world on 'lockdown'. People literally locked in their homes working out 'prisoner's dilemmas'. 30 Million people have been rendered unemployed, many businesses have been shut down and people are bankrupt. What about their rights? Or forget 'rights' - what about their livelihoods and the destruction of their savings, homes etc.? It's more of a pragmatic concern than a moral issue.
- paganel 6y ago> it's the disease. It's not the disease, as in the suggested solutions will actually restrict the rights of people who haven't got the disease. Not that people who are sick deserve to have their rights curtailed, see below. > If you have a disease like AIDS, you cannot go around knowingly affecting people. This sounds so, so wrong. I believe that thinking similar to this generated the terrible situation and ostracisation that people who got AIDS in the late '80s had to face. > rights' for a moment wherein the entire world on 'lockdown'. The entire world is not on "lockdown" anymore. I live in a country who is slowly exiting one (after 2+ months), as does most of Europe, and even though we have never been the bastion of democracy we have managed to do it without resorting to the ostracisation of people.