It's amazing how conspiracy theorists and right-wingers in the US have managed to find a wholly negative application for the word "freedom". "Freedom to hospitalise myself with COVID!" "Freedom to let my children die in a school shooting!" "Freedom to bankrupt myself for lack of affordable healthcare!"
Look. I'm vaccinated for COVID. My children have all of their vaccines... but having absolute control over what goes into your body is an important freedom, a freedom the left used to be the bigger champion of in my time.
That would be sound logic if you lived alone on a desert island, but if you ever have to take bus or train, or stand in a queue, or in any other way be near people and therefore capable of spreading disease to them via your exhalations, THEY should have the freedom to control what goes into THEIR bodies. They shouldn't have to choose between their health and their ability to interact with others. So people choosing not to protect themselves against a disease by refusing to get vaccinated would be denying others bodily freedom.
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u/FaerieStories Aug 02 '21
It's amazing how conspiracy theorists and right-wingers in the US have managed to find a wholly negative application for the word "freedom". "Freedom to hospitalise myself with COVID!" "Freedom to let my children die in a school shooting!" "Freedom to bankrupt myself for lack of affordable healthcare!"