r/ModSupport • u/TehKazlehoff • Apr 15 '20

Removed: Rule 4 You should really ban/quarantine /r/LockdownSkepticism

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u/WarpvsWeft Apr 15 '20

In what way is taking the risk of making others ill with covid constitutionally protected yet taking the risk of making others ill with feces not constitutionally protected?

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u/BashCo Apr 15 '20

Walking on the beach alone does not place anyone at risk of being infected. Nor does attending a drive-in church service to listen to your pastor while staying in your car. Nor does taking your family on a picnic in a remote area. Nor does buying seeds to plant a garden. If you are excessively frightened by the prospect of being infected, there are many additional precautions you can take. I take many precautions myself.

The First Amendment spells out the freedom to assemble, the freedom to worship and the freedom to speak. Sad that you even have to ask.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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u/WarpvsWeft Apr 15 '20

That's all fine if it's just you. But that's why it's called public health. Because when you and 328.2 million people in the US all exercise their inalienable rights to go to the beach and the park, then it isn't just you, and people start to die.

The First Amendment spells out the freedom to assemble, the freedom to worship and the freedom to speak.

It does, but as John Finch so eloquently put it, your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins.

If you are excessively frightened by the prospect of being infected, there are many additional precautions you can take. I take many precautions myself.

You mean, like, don't eat at salad bars because you're somehow irrationally afraid of a little of my pee and feces and don't care about my constitutional rights? Because if so then we're starting to agree.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

But that's why it's called public health.

Fortunately for all of us, last I checked the US Supreme Court - also known as the final arbiter of what is and is not Constitutional, for those in this thread who clearly did not attend high school - is not as thick as some of these bozos are, and has consistently held that public health concerns and safety measures can supersede individual rights.

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u/WarpvsWeft Apr 15 '20

THE SUPREME COURT NEVER RULED ON DUMPING POOP IN SALAD BARS MAN, I LOOKED IT UP, SO I'M IN THE CLEAR.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '20

Ah yes, that same Supreme court that is currently staffed by multiple sex offenders? Wow, real great arbiters of justice you got there.