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Can they just like send her to one of the uninhabited island territories with a like a huge stash of food and water? It seems cruel to imprison someone for liv
by notch898a 4y ago
Can they just like send her to one of the uninhabited island territories with a like a huge stash of food and water? It seems cruel to imprison someone for living with a disease. They used to send lepers to Molokai (Hawaii).
- suprjami 4y agoDid you even read the first paragraph? > A woman in Washington state is facing electronic home monitoring and possible jail time after spending the past year willfully violating multiple court orders to have her active, contagious case of tuberculosis treated and to stay in isolation while doing so. This isn't some unfortunate incurable disease. This is someone wilfully endangering others for no good reason and disobeying a reasonable legal order not to do that.
- notch898a 4y agoI don't think dictating other people's health care is reasonable. At least give the option of exile so she can live her life in the outdoors with the disease if she likes.
- themitigating 4y agoBy not dictating her health care you are potentially dictating other's health. Insert quote about freedom and noses
- maxerickson 4y agoExile to where exactly? And what do you do when they violate the terms of the exile (which seems likely enough in this case)?
- notch898a 4y agoSomething like swain's island or baker island. I guess worst case you could go back to the other options if they escaped. Swain's is technically outside of the immigration controls of most of the US so you'd be committing another crime to re-enter without presenting to immigration anyway.
- genewitch 4y agonew mexico, nevada, utah, colorado, texas...
- maxerickson 4y agoHow is that exile when there are no border controls?
- jojobas 4y agoThe article doesn't seem to touch it, could it be that she couldn't afford to stay at home and get treatment?
- themitigating 4y agoShe wouldn't be imprisoned for living with a disease. She would be imprison for potentially infecting others.
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- ndthrowaway 4y agoMuch better to just send them to one of the personal freedom states for respiratory illness sufferers. I hear Florida is fond of bussing people to more agreeable political locations. edit: fixed spelling error only