The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167504 Message #4134081
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Jan-22 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Your rights are routinely flouted by people with coughs, colds, flu and unwashed hands. By speeding or careless drivers or by polluters. The philosophical question could be, do you grab these people by the lapels and demand that they respect your rights, or do you, perhaps by public campaigns, appeal to their better nature and try to encourage their sense of responsibility? As soon as you start talking about rights in areas of life which can't (or shouldn't: we don't want the law to be an ass...) be governed by the law, you're in danger of causing polarisation and entrenched positions. Which is precisely what has happened with the mandate for health workers to be vaccinated.
(My view on them is that their arguments against vaccination don't hold water and that they're being idiotic, but I agree with their objections to compulsion).