The virus doesn't actually care about this either, which is why we have a steady march of people CONTINUING TO GET INFECTED AND GET SICK at supermarkets, at warehouses and processing facilities, and at hospitals
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Unfortunately we do not live in a science fiction universe where we're surrounded by personal force fields and all contact with other people's germs is consensual and voluntary If we did then none of this would be an issue in the first place
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But everyone saying "I'd rather take some small risk of an earlier death just to live a little again" aren't really bearing the risk themselves They're piling it on others, ESPECIALLY frontline retail employees who have no choice but to interact with them
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Yeah, exactly. This is a giant honking example of what the word 'externality' means.
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Libertarianism axiomatically assumes an idiosyncratic view of property rights, and then asserts those made up artifices as being as absolute and critical as bodily autonomy. It’s natural that actual bodily autonomy then comes off as artificial and contingent to them
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I even like the idea that maximizing personal freedom is a worthwhile social goal. I just think you destroy it with the Libertarian philosophy.
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It's pre-kindergarten selfishness guising as a political philosophy. Libertarians are all frustrated toddlers angry that they were ever taught to share.
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