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Enough slapping each other on the backs. Get a private room. If you cannot unearth and empathise why anti-vaxxer believe what they do, you're never go...

I stand corrected?

Still doesn't change the healthcare problem, now does it? Also try to remember this is a pandemic. The world doesn't revolve around the USA.

The answer was in my previous post. It would eventually work for Covid but not before crippling the healthcare system for months and causing unnecessa...

The flu sometimes does mutate in a more deadly strain but because the virus is endemic most people have some resistance to it, even against a new dead...

Luckily, all those people have the decency not to die at more or less the same time or do it far away from where we live.

What a nonsense reply. I shouldn't need to make my case because 1) common decency would require that if I kindly ask something that is a minor inconve...

Yeah yeah, you can't read, we know about your dyslexia. Move along now.

I'm not backpeddling at all. It goes as follows: 1. I ask them to follow a rule established in trains 2. they get angry and threaten me 3. in a lawles...

Aww, you poor thing, you really can't read can you?

The only ones threatening with violence where those guys themselves towards me simply because I cordially asked them to follow the rules. They were it...

Yesterday I was in the train and there were two teenagers next to me not wearing their face masks properly (under their chin). I asked them "Could you...

We can disagree but I don't appreciate the suggestion I didn't take your articles seriously. I read the article it just states they are separate issue...

Neither of those articles take into account the possible effects on human trafficking so I don't find them persuasive at all. It's curious after highl...

I'd like an approach that creates the least victims as a result of (un)intended consequences. It's a weighing of interests to me. A John paying a fine...

What I say isn't in a vacuum and I find the suggestion kind of weird. It's you who starts from a principle and then conclude things must be a certain ...

In an ideal world sure. But we live in a world where criminals are perfectly capable of getting away with it and have been getting away with it for ag...

It's not independent, it's related. Which is why human trafficking increased in the a Netherlands when prostitution was legalised. And while it makes ...

Theoretically true but by decontextualising it from the criminal background from which legal prostitution arose, the legalisation of prostitution led ...

What's this?

I think a viability test on whether something qualifies as abortion or not is problematic because medicinal developments may result in the right to ab...

You've repeatedly initiated discussions towards me. So this is another stupid remark. The rest of your post, as usual, doesn't contain an argument. I'...

It's not a debate about the virtues of capitalism or socialism but a debate between privatised and universal healthcare. Under the first, you're defin...

First of all, if you're not interested in argumentation, get the fuck out of here. My "beliefs" are at least well-founded. I've not read arguments fro...

I believe I actually have an argument where you dodge questions and just like to repeat yourself.

Excellent. You totally didn't understand the argument as expected. I dismissed the legal argument for a right to pre-tax income in one sentence. Obvio...

Yawn. For taxation to be theft, there must be a right to pre-tax income. Legally, this is clearly not the case. A moral right to pre-tax income can on...

Great post, thank you. I'm swayed to some extent but want to look at some points you raise further. It is obviously hyperbolic. Care is, at all times,...

To stick with the Wild West theme, you can always shoot a few judges while there's a democratic majority.

Apart from the problematic framing resulting from such a narrow individualistic and capitalist worldview that isn't shared by most here (certainly not...

I've given enough arguments and given real life examples of what the Dutch healthcare system is already struggling with that have laid bare that this ...

Should people who misbehave in a restaurant be served even though they paid? The other customers paid too and to ensure they can get the service they ...

But it's not the same logic because there's nothing barring you to return home and get the shoes. In the examples I give, a decision has to be made. B...

That's the prevailing idea and it's wrong.

Nope, those percentages are much lower than 90% which is why it's not the same and, moreover, these are lifestyle choices that predate Covid, meaning ...

I have answered it, that you disagree is in no way, shape or form about me avoiding the question. My pretty straightforward questions get ignored or t...

Again, the interpretation that I'm looking to "punish" is your own. I don't think what I've described is a devilish dilemma; it's a rather clear hypot...

Thank you. I can see how in disaster triage making decisions like this is much harder. And I'll definitely grant that the "protocol" I suggested doesn...

You keep suggesting I don't know what I'm talking about in a public forum so it would be appropriate to actually explain why. Just because you're a nu...

Again, maybe actually make an argument. EDIT: In fact, I find the idea, that because "triager" does something in a certain way that therefore we can't...

I can see how that may have come across like that so let me clarify a bit more how things are going in the Netherlands. Police, public prosecution and...

We have a bible belt where people don't get the measles vaccine either and every 10-15 years or so there's an outbreak. Maybe longer ago there was an ...

Another statement as if it's true. Why don't you go express the right to healthcare in countries that don't have any? Or maybe imagine living 500 year...

Well, thank you for that meaningless statement. And why would that be? People seem to misunderstand healthcare isn't an entitlement but a privilege. S...

Also, this is actually not true. People from lower socio-economic backgrounds are disproportionally sanctioned for breaking laws with less leniency ap...

Yes, but not a proximate cause of an accident and still considered generally safe, which is why some cars aren't permitted on roads. I think all lives...

It's not disdain to insist choices have consequences. Nor is it novel. That choices should have consequences is clear. And your "but they paid their e...

There's nothing sick about it and has nothing to do with revenge. Only an idiot would interpret it that way. But you're probably one of the idiots who...

Yes. Against. Against. The vaccine is available and everybody that wants to get vaccinated can (in Europe and the US, what we seem to be talking about...

Well at least you don't live in Afghanistan. curious, are you aware when the last time was they had to set up triage because of a "serious" flu?