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by AshamedCaptain 1691 days ago
> The best we can do is isolate the population and move on.

Or force them to vaccinate -- it would not be the first time this has been done.

IMHO that looks like a much more sensible option than having "vaccination passes" which basically mandate vaccination anyway but also happen to become (yet another) type of government ID.

I'm not going to be the one to complain that societal paternalism is a bad thing.
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mdp2021 1690 days ago
It is absolutely questionable that you show to believe to have a capacity for judgement adequate to know the "truth" and be able to impose it to others (also) on that basis.
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AshamedCaptain 1690 days ago
It's called democracy. We assume everyone +18 has this "capacity" and as such impose the will of the majority on others. Has been going on for some decades already...
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mdp2021 1689 days ago
> assume everyone +18 has this "capacity"

And you did well to put 'capacity' in the bunny quotes of figurative speech, because it is a strongly false assumption.

Those "you" you refer to with that «we» should better revise their assumptions. And again you should be very wary of what you put in your head.

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AshamedCaptain 1687 days ago
Yet this is literally one of the fairest political systems available to human civilization right now.
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mdp2021 1687 days ago
And has to deal with the issue that people in general have a strongly bad judgement owing to lack of resources to acquire the instruments (time is always relatively scarce), complicated by the fact that people in the lower side of the "distribution" of the abilities lack the awareness of their inadequacy.

Consistently, "democracy" has a strong connotation of negative value, which also implies a countervalue: "better than other systems", which does contain its big "though" - making evident that common forms are suboptimal compromises, in light of the inadequacy mentioned above.

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