Medical science being wrong in the past isn't reason to dismiss medical science today. Presumably you see a doctor when you're sick and take prescribe...
It's a matter of degree. One has more of a right to the sole use of one's kidneys than to go to a restaurant or nightclub, and the burden of sharing o...
The government can be responsible for the medical treatment of people if the health of others are at risk, which they are in this case. That's why the...
So there are effective alternative medications to a virus that doesn’t exist? Arguing for two conflicting conspiracies at the same time is a bold choi...
If there are compelling ethical (or practical reasons) not to enact a medical policy then I agree that there is justification not to. Requiring vaccin...
And that is why governments are requiring people to be vaccinated; because vaccination reduces the risk of infection. We're not in a position where we...
So you accept that in principle the government (and private individuals?) can demand certain things from you if you are to benefit from some goods or ...
I'm not talking specifically about vaccine mandates. I'm questioning this comment: Any kind of government involves individuals imposing their will on ...
It really is a curious argument. Let's say that natural immunity grants a 90% protection and vaccines grant an 80% protection. Is that extra 10% prote...
I'm not saying that it's "stated somewhere" (I don't know what you mean by this or why you keep bringing it up) that vaccine mandates are things we mu...
Sure, and there are people who argue that the moral thing to do is to take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of spreading a dangerous disease, and t...
Are you an anarchist? Any form of government necessarily involves some group of people imposing their will on others (and each other). I can't speak o...
This isn't what this law is though. This law allows random citizens to sue someone $10,000 for driving a woman to an abortion clinic, and doesn't reim...
Some Democrat state should make an equivalent law regarding buying guns or registering as a Republican and see if the Supreme Court will make the same...
So if the defendant wins, he can't get his court costs paid by the person who brought the case, but if the defendant loses, he has to pay the court co...
Nope, just a custom thing I figured out after reading your comment. Although @"SophitiCat"'s extension does still work (for some reason I thought it w...
If you're on Chrome install the Custom JavaScript for Websites 2 extension. Go to https://thephilosophyforum.com/ and click the CJS extension icon to ...
Because it's comparable to passing every {1\over{2^n}}m point between 0m and 1m in order. For the same reason that the count is impossible, so too is ...
That doesn't resolve Zeno's paradox. There is more to Zeno's paradox than the oft stated claim that it would take an infinite amount of time to traver...
I'm not saying that you're morally obliged to get vaccinated because the risks from the vaccine are lower than the risks of COVID. I'm saying that it'...
In most cases I might not be able to tell if someone is in the midst of a psychotic break, but if they tell me that their foetus is the spawn of Satan...
Possibly. If she is in the midst of a psychotic break and believes that the foetus is the spawn of Satan then I think there are reasons to prevent any...
And there are rational reasons to have an abortion, which is why it can be excused. Whereas there isn't a rational reason to not get vaccinated (excep...
That risk is still greater than any risks from getting the vaccine, and so being vaccinated is better than being unvaccinated. You not getting vaccina...
The simple facts are that a) the risks of death and illness from the vaccine are less than the risks of death and illness from COVID (except for those...
If your decision affects others then reasons do matter. An irrational decision that harms others is one that ought be vilified. A rational decision th...
Assume that the effects on the health care system of people eating bacon is the same as the effects on the health care system of people not getting va...
People who drink excess alcohol are vilified. In cases like eating bacon or skiing they're not vilified (except by some vegetarians in the case of eat...
I don't think there's any way of knowing if one's own natural immune system works better than or as well as the vaccine, so the studied average is the...
And it's not just about transmissibility. The increased hospitalisations of the unvaccinated increases the burden on the health care system, taking up...
One thing to consider is that the symptomatic are probably more likely to spread the disease than the asymptomatic simply because they cough a lot mor...
This aged well. One Year After Coronavirus Pandemic Declared, How Many Deaths From Covid-19? And that was with all the various rules re. masks and loc...
I wrote something that’s a bit over 1,000 words and it’s so good I think I’m going to skip the competition and make it into the best novel ever writte...
Or increase taxes on those best able to afford paying more taxes and use the increased tax revenue to help reduce poverty. Five ways poverty hinders e...
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