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> ban all interpersonal interaction for several months, stop all transportation, and put locks on everybody's doors so they can't leave their houses But then e
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> ban all interpersonal interaction for several months, stop all transportation, and put locks on everybody's doors so they can't leave their houses
But then everybody starves to death. And anything less won't actually eradicate the virus, as we've seen.
- hannasanarion 5y agoYeah, exactly. Science can tell you how to get a physical result, but when you're making public policy, human happiness and morality matter just as much, and happiness and morality are political. Policy makers need to balance the countable mathematical goals with the uncountable moral and political goals, and Hume's Guillotine tells us there is no calculus that can tell you the right balance.
- doggodaddo78 5y agoI can go for 70 days without any food and I have a good 40 days supply at home. If we did something like this or what China did in the first place, it would've died out. Relying on individual responsibility inexorably leads to a Tragedy of the Commons. Individuals can never be trusted.
- kcplate 5y agoNeither can governments, apparently.