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> Everyone has the right not to catch a potentially deadly disease. Nobody has this right. This positive right has never existed. And for good reason. It leads
by __blockcipher__ 5y ago
> Everyone has the right not to catch a potentially deadly disease.
Nobody has this right. This positive right has never existed. And for good reason. It leads to all manner of evils taken to the extreme.
- perl4ever 5y agoSome people think that knowingly exposing someone to HIV should be a serious crime (I don't know if it presently is in any jurisdiction; I'm fairly certain there have been attempts to pass such laws at least). Is this an example of the positive right that you say never existed and leads to all manner of evils? Do you think the proponents of it are uniformly politically aligned with the people in favor of masks for COVID?
- __blockcipher__ 5y agoIn the context of COVID we’re actually talking about unknowingly exposing someone to a virus. So I don’t think it’s directly comparable. Anyway, I don’t believe in throwing someone in jail for such an act. Some people do. But I don’t think that invalidates the point that such a right does not exist, because “spread disease” is a superset of “knowingly spread disease”. Ironically here in California it is legal to knowingly spread AIDS to someone, because democrats, yet that same political faction thinks that you are responsible if you unknowingly spread COVID-19 to someoen. (As an aside the absurd “infecting Grandma in the grocery store” doesn’t happen anyway because that’s not really where COVID spreads but I digress)