The debate and now growing global conflict between what we believe about personal liberties vs social order is increasingly apparent as nations push for vaccination and further lockdowns.
This weekend Europe experienced a series of demonstration protesting lockdowns and the removal of freedom to protest due to Covid-19 risk. Mean while in Miami beach Spring breakers throw off the shackles of lock downs and party hard causing Miami to issue an 8pm curfew.
I’m guessing there are TWO reaction on hearing this news—“They are horrible people killing everyone!” or “ They are Heros!”
Also this past week in Euro the AstraZeneca vaccine distribution was halted as may young people developed blood clots, some losing their lives.
And, we are taking on risk from the Vaccine—the have been approved for emergency usage, but they did not go through years of animal testing like others have—there is skepticism, there is distrust, and what is amplifying the distrust—people feeling like it is being FORCED on them.
Which leads us to the topic at hand:
- Liberty vs safety
- Individual vs the Whole
Should there be mandatory lockdowns and forced Vaccination?
Should the media and big tech push more their fact checking tags and information?
OR
Should there be personal freedom knowing that with it we could be putting others at risk?
John Stuart Mill, In On Liberty, argued that “the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”
But what happens when the whole is causing harm against individuals who the community conjecture could cause harm? Isn’t it then one tribe vs. another, and who ever wields the power wins?
James Madison said: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
Weaver & Loom Quote:
“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
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Thomas AquinasLinks:
Germany: https://apnews.com/article/berlin-germany-coronavirus-pandemic-99b7100d7c223654a31c878a6f7375aa
Swiss: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/thousands-demonstrate-against-covid-19-restrictions/46465314
UK: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14400392/anti-lockdown-protesters-clash-police-london/Should vaccines be manditory: https://reason.com/2014/03/25/should-vaccines-be-mandatory/
Risk of Covid: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm
Qantas: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56460329
France Against Vaccines: https://www.thelocal.fr/20201222/the-everyday-restrictions-people-who-refuse-the-covid-19-vaccine-in-france-could-face/
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