Parents do not control the activity of the spermatozoa, ovum, and their subsequent forms. Surely they can affect gestation, but they cannot make gesta...
It may be weird and cheeky but it at least considers extant things and activities, and isn’t a false analogy like pulling the trigger of a gun. The sp...
There is no will to substitute. There is no person to force. We might look upon our birth with regret and sorrow and lament our parent’s decision, but...
I prefer the idea that “forcing” is when you attempt to subvert and substitute another’s will with your own. But with birth and child rearing you are ...
The consequentialist engages in a form of fantasy, immediately confining his morality to weighing a limited variety of possible consequences (never al...
If the state fears an overloaded healthcare system maybe it should improve the healthcare system. But that’s too much work. Better to utilize its powe...
Government policy is government interest, not communal interests. The community didn’t devise, implement, and enforce lockdown policies. The case that...
That drone strike we were told averted an ISIS car bomb during Biden’s Afghanistan debacle did in fact kill an innocent family, most of them children....
I agree. “Lockdown” is a revealing term. It’s prison jargon. The same consequentialist fears about some impending scenario, whether it happens or not,...
The beauty of jargon is that it usually constrains itself to its own specialization. Just navigating the “discourse domain” of academic philosophy lea...
Yesterday the vaccine passports came into effect where I live. I now find myself in the privileged tier of a two-tiered society. This day only proves ...
Though we generally use possessive determiners to refer to the body, none of it means we are not our body. Just point to yourself and see whether your...
None of that matters to me. I don’t care if the vaccine cures every disease in human history. If someone doesn’t want to put it in their body they sho...
Yes, the vaccinated can spread the disease, and according to an Israeli study for example, have less protection than natural immunity. Maybe there sho...
Medical science also recommended the Tuskegee experiments, experimentation on Jews, slaves, deliberately infecting Guatemalans with syphillis, transpl...
I am fully vaccinated and I listen to the advice of my doctor. How does that square with your little caricature? Your obedience is to government offic...
Somehow I’ve always known that those who pretended to fight against dictatorship, authoritarianism, discrimination, executive power, state capitalism,...
I accept that in principle the government and private individuals can restrict me from denying the freedom and rights of others. The unvaccinated do n...
Alright. Though I’m not the topic, I do not believe in “unrestricted self-autonomy” and am not a full-on anarchist. I would prefer to end someone’s au...
Sorry, now that I read back on it it isn’t clear. What I mean by it isn’t “stated somewhere” is that it isn’t a matter of what we “must” do. It’s a ch...
Right, there are things we can't do and things we must do. And nowhere does it state that we have to mandate people to take a vaccine and deny them ac...
I’m not one for the supernatural either. And nowhere does it state that we have to mandate people to take a vaccine and deny them access to society if...
Society’s interest is its own continuation…I must have missed the memo because there is no other way beyond sheer projection to verify such an interes...
That is at least a practical view. But I must reject it. Society is composed of individuals. The interests of the individual is the interest of societ...
It’s not a straw man. It’s just an argument you cannot address. “We live in a society”. And? Such a fact is meaningless when it comes to imposing your...
It’s my argument, not a breakdown of yours. So maybe you can dispute it. You don’t know. You’re ignorant. You’re scared. Fear and ignorance is the pre...
If you don’t own anyone’s body, what gives you the right to force vaccines upon them, make medical decisions for them, or otherwise attempt to assert ...
Yes, the government doesn’t own anyone’s body. The legitimacy of government authority over someone’s body has never been justified. It’s as simple as ...
We don’t need to pretend that mandating vaccination is somehow equivalent to stopping people from banging their heads against a brick wall to maintain...
Assuming that people should be able to make their own health decisions, should be able to decide what they don’t want to inject into their body, the p...
It’s no surprise you’d bring up the fatuous “fire in a crowded theater” cliché, used as it was to justify jailing a man for speaking out against the d...
Did anyone see the piffle from the self-proclaimed “American Civil Liberties Union” on vaccine mandates? https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/civ...
The state is operated by men. It was also built by men. So you are subordinate to men. But these men don’t act like men, like your neighbor might. The...
If Kemalism was in any way inspired by Ataturk's agnosticism, and Ba'athism inspired by Aflaq's Christianity, it could be said that these types of Ara...
L'état, c'est moi Wherever the state relinquishes power, whether through privatization, deregulation, or cuts in spending and taxation, there is no sh...
These are good, solid ideas, Xtrix. But, like all rules for conversation, I think they will increase time and energy rather than reduce them. Yours an...
I said, “ For the last few years many of these states have pressured social media companies to censor “fake news” and “misinformation”. I gave you an ...
You thought, wrongly, that the HRW article pertained to the “liberal countries” I wrote about below, and not the authoritarian countries I wrote about...
Most children throughout history have spent their formative years under the tutelage of their mothers. The rapid cognitive, physical, emotional, and s...
It is obvious by what I wrote that my point about more liberal countries was that “For the last few years many of these states have pressured social m...
One example would be the United States. The surgeon general called misinformation an “urgent threat” and called on tech companies to take action. Euro...
I think you’re right. Social media is more anti-social media than anything. Bleating on Twitter or some other platform has become the substitute for m...
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