im fairly disappointed by people who generally identify as libertarian leaning yet support vaccine mandates and passports without explicitly grimacing about the implications for government power and considering the actually implementability of these policies
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2. lets say that you manage to create a vast and uniform national apparatus for reliably tracking the medical status of every person in the country in real time, crushing opposition from states, appropriate for precisely identifying individuals to exclude from public life
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"gosh we have this just lying around hope the government doesnt use it for anything other than its intended purposes ha ha"
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anyway im sure you can imagine a set of parameters where ok the vaccines are good enough and the disease is bad enough and people are stupid enough that we still should do all of this but if you dont even worry about this a little bit like what kind of libertarian are you even
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imagining what sort of person would reply to these tweets expecting me to heartily agree with them that the problem with actually existing libertarians is that they dont like government enough
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to play devil's advocate: the legitimacy cost of admitting that within the confines of our legal tradition the way out is a combination of mass death and voluntary vaccination for those with the health and means to do so is greater than trampling over rights people don't care for
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If the vast majority of people who did not get the shot are just going to get the shot instead of a fake card under a mandate that still seems like a success? It's about marginal effects
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i dont think this is the likely result at current margins
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Occasional conformity pilled
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