Aella on Twitter: "@mattyglesias I also think I'd be more sympathetic to this attempt to make ppl do things to their own bodies if I had greater trust in the government to make wise, principled choices about it. But I really, really don't." / Twitter

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Feb 19, 2022

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Mad About Vaccines isn't a cause I want to see succeed (I am very frustrated at the misinformation ppl I know are believing blindly), but Don't Govern My Body is. "this is for the public good, there are externalities" is what people use to control my body from sex work.

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I also think I'd be more sympathetic to this attempt to make ppl do things to their own bodies if I had greater trust in the government to make wise, principled choices about it. But I really, really don't.

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The core point of absolute bodily autonomy makes sense, but shouldn't it have limits in case of grave and immediate danger to others? E.g. with a virus 30x deadlier than covid. At what point bodily autonomy / low trust in institutions would be trumped by other concerns?

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