Fair enough. I am also not smart enough to have "Dr" infront of my name, so I guess the following article must be true. New research deflates current ...
I did take a look at who they were, and the fact that there's "medical" in their job title does not make them an expert in whatever it is they're maki...
If by expert you thought I meant "a random person in a news article", then.. Oh well. Link an actual scientific study if you want me to take it seriou...
Imagine thinking a Google search is going to produce unbiased results. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00648-4/full...
Here are some ideas for filling in the ???: - Individuals whose opinions their government doesn't like - Individuals whose opinions they don't underst...
Well, I did read your post, because I don't feel threatened by conflicting opinions, and thanks for sharing so many of those with me. Opinions aren't ...
Tell that to the individuals who, on the basis of literally nothing, are promoting a defacto apartheid between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. I u...
You are smart enough to know the difference between an inconvenience and Israeli practices. I asked you a straightforward question: would you be in fa...
You're just repeating nonsense on both accounts. Again, untrue. If life is made impossible, in a similar fashion as life is made impossible for Palest...
Completely untrue, which is why this argument has long since been abandoned and replaced for the "unvaccinated put more pressure on health services"-a...
It most certainly is. There is little a government can take from me that I put any value in, but it can make life impossible to the degree where I hav...
The right of autonomy over one's own body is not a priviledge, it is a human right. Right to Integrity of the Person From the United Nations website: ...
You may choose to live in fear. I do not. That is why I am reasonable, and you are not. Human Rights Principles :roll: Not sure what your whole spiel ...
And they aren't. If you believe the "unvaccinated" are responsible for the covid pandemic, you have simply fallen for the government's "us versus them...
The dilemma is about safety versus liberty, the boundaries we put on those in power; it is about the free press, the independence of academia and the ...
No. Your government is keeping you hostage with the way it frames and deals with the issue. This line of argumentation is dependent on whether all the...
That might be your view, but I disagree that one can simply decide for another what individual risks they should or shouldn't take, moreso because it ...
Seems like you're intent on spinning the "religion bad" yarn which I am not interested in and also isn't particularly relevant to the topic at hand. I...
No one alive today has created their concept of reality all by themselves. The philosophical and spiritual concepts underlying religions are well-docu...
Theology seems to float somewhere in between religion and philosophy. In the end, it seems inquisitive minds are drawn towards the same questions (and...
Countless books have been written on the subject. I don't know why you would say this. Perhaps not, but no one can answer the questions at the heart o...
Go to the heart of any religion and you will find philosophy. What we have come to know as religion is simply an exoteric representation of a philosop...
Projecting our (generally ignorant?) ideas of perfection onto individuals even before they are born, I fear it will be destructive beyond imagination....
A more fitting word would perhaps be unintelligible. Ergo, cannot be understood through the intellect. Plato and the (Neo)Platonics said things very s...
The science is pretty unanimous about the fact that for healthy, young people below 35, the chance of getting seriously ill from a covid infection is ...
For a certain type of ideas (usually socio-political ones), it could be said that they become a substitute for an individual's identity. Therefore, wh...
There's only two flavors of politics. The path of force (authoritarianism) and the path of freedom (libertarianism). Everything in between is opinion,...
So you're a protector of the people! How noble. Mankind can rest easy, knowing that stalwart proponents of their well-being such as yourself decided t...
It is becoming increasingly clear to me that those who would argue in favor of using government coercion to force people into getting vaccinated, simp...
If you willfully participate in the ostracization of people for exercising their inalienable right to bodily autonomy, you were never a gentleman to b...
It is authoritarianism pur sang. The lofty ideals that are being preached are little more than a pretense to soothe the conscience while the fundament...
Yes, a constitution is undemocratic. It is not written "by the people". It is necessary, because as history has proven, it is entirely possible for ma...
Anyone who thinks risk is the main reason people resist is missing the point. Governments are invading the lives of citizens, censoring information, c...
However interesting your psycho-analysis may be, have you ever considered that there are people who genuinely believe that goverments (and now large i...
Individuals who truly care for others will not seek to control them, will not pressure or persuade. To help someone is to bring someone to insight vol...
"The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it gives the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscienc...
Best to call it out for what it is: authoritarianism. The left's version has always been will to power masquerading as philanthropy. Offer a moral pre...
You've accused me of not being able to read in the past. :chin: My decision to get vaccinated or not, does not hold any direct consequences for anyone...
When making decisions about one's own body, there isn't a need for one's arguments to be understood as rational anyway. That changes when one starts p...
There isn't such a thing as "climate denial". No one denies the climate exists, and most people do not deny that it changes either. It's also a bit na...
Those people were forced to pay for other people's poor decisions their entire lives, and when they need the help you wish to deny them? What a simple...
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