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People are free to stay inside if they're afraid of getting sick. Rights can only be overridden if and only if there are no other choices, which is not the case
by TeeMassive 3y ago
People are free to stay inside if they're afraid of getting sick.
Rights can only be overridden if and only if there are no other choices, which is not the case here.
Me getting to an hospital doesn't limit someone else's freedom.
- nicoburns 3y ago> People are free to stay inside if they're afraid of getting sick By that logic, people are free to stay inside if I'm standing outside their door with a gun and they don't want to be shot. Yes, they're free to stay inside, but they're not free to go outside. I think it's reasonable to believe that the rights of free movement override the rights to be protected from diseases in this case, but I don't think you can argue that via a general principle of rights. I think you have to argue that based on the specific consequences, and on your personal values.
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoThousands of people going to the hospital at the same time due to a preventable phenomenon certainly limits the freedom of lots of people to continue living when those hospitals are overrun and unable to provide care. We had already tried a few months of the "let everyone decide individually and hope for the best" approach and the problem kept worsening superlinearly.