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Vaccine mandates make sense for the same reason drunk driving bans make sense: externalities. The role of government is to cover for market failings, and spill
by Godel_unicode 5y ago
Vaccine mandates make sense for the same reason drunk driving bans make sense: externalities.
The role of government is to cover for market failings, and spillover costs are a prime example of an area where markets are essentially guaranteed to fail.
- xboxnolifes 5y ago> Vaccine mandates make sense for the same reason drunk driving bans make sense: externalities. These are not the same thing. One is an inaction, the other is an action. It's like saying that forcing someone to have an abortion is the same thing as banning abortions.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoFirst, I very clearly didn't say that they're the same thing so I'm not sure why that would be relevant. Second, that analogy makes no sense other than as a dog-whistle. Lastly, even all of that aside, there's no rule that says the government can only mandate actions or prohibit actions. There are plenty of examples of both things in the US legal code.
- eru 5y agoThe logic of externalities can be used to justify taxes (and subsidies), but not bans or mandates.