>the freedom to spread certain pathogens might end there as well.
There is a false equivalence here that freedom to opt-out of a commercial product, is excising one's freedom to "spread diseases".
To make it clear, would you want to pass a law that prevents someone with a genetic defect from marrying and having children? Because they would be "spreading" generic disorders, and by having offspring, they are "exercising their freedom to spread a genetic disorder", right?
Basically, it is the same reasoning. But it does not have to be force sterilisation.
You can say that any one that is not breathing through a mask is exercising their freedom to spread diseases, and so everyone should wear a mask all the time..
Basically, the point is there is a line where your right to be safe and the right of the rest of the world to exist in freedom is in balance. And arguments like the one that is being made is pushing that line to reduce the latter, and if we are not careful, the latter will be reasoned out, in the name of increasing the "protection" of the 0.01% of people from 95.02 to 95.03% (Just made up numbers to illustrate the point).
And it is not hard to imagine who benefits from it.
May be we need a "Citizen freedom index" for every country so that we will know when we are draining it.
Because if it is hard to improve what that cannot be measured, its hard to know when you are draining it as well..
There is a false equivalence here that freedom to opt-out of a commercial product, is excising one's freedom to "spread diseases".
To make it clear, would you want to pass a law that prevents someone with a genetic defect from marrying and having children? Because they would be "spreading" generic disorders, and by having offspring, they are "exercising their freedom to spread a genetic disorder", right?