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No, but that’s not what happened here.

• LurkingPenguin 5y ago
  Why "no"? What logic or principle is your position based on?
  • noduerme 5y ago
    Based on the obvious principle that forcing someone to take what they consider too many precautions is radically different from forcing them to take not enough precautions. The former leads to annoyance and the latter leads to death. I'm so exhausted with the trolls who pretend they can't fathom the difference. At least learn how to make an argument that makes some kind of logical sense. Why am I even responding to this.
    • LurkingPenguin 5y ago
      > Based on the obvious principle that forcing someone to take what they consider too many precautions is radically different from forcing them to take not enough precautions. What if the professor demanded his students wear a specific kind of mask, like an N95? What if he required his students to take rapid tests before class? Where do you draw the line? If an elderly person with comorbidities -- the highest risk individual in this pandemic by far -- wants to work in an environment where he will be exposed to many other people, which is inherently risky regardless of vaccination and masking (because neither offers 100% protection), he should find an employer whose rules are satisfactory to him, not impose rules that are contrary to his employer's.
      • noduerme 5y ago
        I might agree if you were talking about a worker at a restaurant requesting patrons take more precautions than the restaurant's ownership required. But a tenured professor is not simply an employee. His status is more like an airline captain while in control of a plane. It's his classroom and he can require them to do pretty much anything he wants.
        • LurkingPenguin 5y ago
          Classism at its finest. 88 year-old diabetic tenured university professor can demand whatever he wants but a poor, overweight waitress who lives with and cares for an immunocompromised relative can't.
          • noduerme 5y ago
            No, classism would be: The waitress should just quit or be fired if she doesn't feel safe at her job.
  • CRConrad 5y ago
    If we're charitable and assume you're not so utterly stupid as to have to seriously ask that question, we necessarily arrive at the conclusion that you ask it to derail the discussion. Ergo, no charitable reading of your question is logically possible: You're either too stupid to live -- but you're obviously alive, so that's not it -- or you're being (even more of) an arsehole (than you probably already are all the time). Do you feel particularly proud of that?
    • LurkingPenguin 5y ago
      Proud is too strong a word, but I am glad I'm capable of disagreeing with other people, and defending an opinion however unpopular, without resorting to name-calling.
• mk81 5y ago
  Just stop.