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We had a year now to beef up our health care system. I guess it’s just easier to take away human rights?

• paulryanrogers 6y ago
  Wait, are you suggesting that more infection of a novel virus (whose family is known for more fatality and lingering effects) is an acceptable trade-off for temporary freedom from masks and limits on gathering? Assuming that ones hostipals could handle the worst case scenarios.
  • Pet_Ant 6y ago
    There are people for whom liberty is an absolute and there is litterally nothing that justifies curtailing it. For a sizable population the entire moral supremacy of the United States is that it is a place that they feel uniquely safeguards it. I have no dog in this fight as I don’t live there, but I see it as a theme in enough comments and threads that I’m surprised some Americans seem so oblivious to the perspective of their fellow countrymen.
    • gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
      > it is a place that they feel uniquely safeguards it This isn't news, just read de Tocqueville. As an American I'm comforted by the idea that a significant part of my compatriots will resist any order by virtue of being ordered. Treat other people like humans with dignity that must be persuaded instead of commanded. That's the American ideal imo.
      • a0-prw 6y ago
        That's not the way America treats other people around the world.
        • gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
          Hence why they're referred to as ideals. No one lives up to them as a consequence of being human. That doesn't invalidate them.