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So in your hypothetical it is not just harder not to comply, but it is made impossible, essentially. A situation in which states have absolute supervi...

Does the individual still face reprisal when the government decides the individual has taken more than they should have? If the answer is yes, then it...

You are responding to me, not the other way around. Yes, it does. You have an opinion about what belongs to who and use it to justify taxation. Taxati...

I am not interested in your argumentation as to why you believe what you believe. Everyone is entitled to an opinion and to live in accordance with th...

Do you believe you are describing an opinion or a cosmic truth?

Approaching the matter from a legal standpoint holds no moral significance. The state deciding it has rights to things just like a feudal ruler decide...

This is projection, I suspect. Page-long personal attacks don't impress me, so I would spare myself the effort in the future. That you were in the Mar...

Ah yes. Suicide - a simple matter of weighing the costs against the benefits and making a rational decision based on that. Didn't I recall you posting...

"If you don't like it here just kill yourself" holds even less merit. A citizen, just like a child, is put under an inescapable authority involuntaril...

Life nor citizenship is something the individual voluntarily participates in - these are imposed by their parents and the state respectively. "If you ...

The rise of radicalism was sparked by global powers like the US, Russia, China, etc. to influence the region. These global powers could send money and...

You can frame it any way you like - it doesn't change what taxation is.

You are not forced under threat of violence to go to a restaurant.

On another note, I must say it is a bit disheartening to see grand ideals of healthcare for all be dismissed at the first sign of trouble.

And clearly then, those who do not receive such a priviledge should not have to pay?

Yes, you have opinions about what belongs to who, and use those opinions to justify the use of violence. A system of "might makes right."

Everything must seem rather clear if you believe your own perspectice is all that exists. Moral flag-waving is not very convincing when it is done wit...

Don't mind James. I think he is roleplaying as his avatar, Travis Bickle - a man stuck in a hero fantasy that he himself undermines through his propen...

Was there any attempt made at warning this person? If not, there is something seriously wrong with the moderation on this site. PS: Turns out he was w...

Of course, it has to do with revenge. Your disdain for people who make different decisions than you, regardless of their reasons, shines clearly throu...

Your idea of "ought to" is for medical professionals to carry out petty revenge fantasies? What an utterly sick statement you made - I find it hard to...

The Netherlands. To give further context, the link shows an official communication of the government and primarily summarizes an analysis that was don...

To emphasize, the MP did not deny the existence of the cost-benefit analysis that was made - he just claimed to never have seen it. The document can b...

And whether those actions lead to the least risk is up for debate. A while back my government had a cost-benefit analysis done weighing the benefits o...

Why do you think there is so much resistance? Because the sacrifices are a lot higher than you care to admit. We've talked about this earlier: you acc...

Even if you would multiply that number by five, it would still leave 99% of people having to make permanent sacrifices in their way of living. That's ...

Roughly 0.2%, no?

Wouldn't it make more sense for the miniscule percentage of the population that runs a risk of getting seriously ill from covid to make that sacrifice...

Well, even someone who doesn't partake in public life can still be social, but in their private lives.

Why is the baseline at participation in public life? And why is participation not a luxury like discos? A small bit of information from the country I ...

Why is wanting to go to the disco selfish, and wanting to participate in public life (even though you're afraid that getting coughed on kills you) isn...

Is inept rage your only mode of response?

The result would be that a woman is forced to give birth against her will, or perhaps worse, attempt to terminate the pregnancy herself. I honestly ca...

Vaccines have already been put on hold, for example in Denmark, because exactly this was suspected not to be the case. Besides, to say the vaccine is ...

Would you deny a woman who is deemed irrational beyond a reasonable doubt her right to have an abortion? If so, what good would it bring?

Mhm. Of course. And if what you determined is a psychosis persists you force her to have the baby?

Sure you are. And if the reasons for a woman to have an abortion are irrational by your standards, should she not be allowed to have?

Didn't know you were the arbitrator of what is rational and what is not.

Abortions affect others as well.

What people inject into their bodies is no business but their own. Whatever reasons they may have, no matter how illogical to outsiders, does not fact...

Policy, or law, is a fancy word we use to disguise impositions made by governments through threats of violence. That to me is irreconcilable with love...

To maintain a degree of legitimacy I suppose.

They sure are.

Because emotions are very subjective and can inhibit one's ability for rational thought. Governance and policy are about forcing people to do things. ...

However sad that may be, policy should not be determined by emotions. Much has been said about the effectiveness, side-effects and potential dangers o...

Some flus cause more deaths than others. Covid-19 has a comparable IFR to flus that kill a relatively large amount of people, the difference being tha...

The IFR of covid-19 isn't very far from a serious flu.

Violence rules the land of the dead, in both the physical, intellectual and spiritual sense.

I was talking about the individual's physical body. I hope we can agree that the individual's physical body belongs to the individual. The nature of t...

The need itself is not, however perhaps the need in conjuction with an assault on something that unquestionably belongs to the individual is sufficien...