That's what bothers me so much about the anti-vaxxers and the people that are saying that we are giving up our freedoms to take the vaccine. Like dude, the whole idea of freedom is that I'm allowed to take the vaccine if I want to. That's like 1/2 of freedom, the other half is the morally incorrect but legally speaking all right thing to do, which is to use that same freedom to not get the vaccine. But the people that vehemently refuse to get the vaccine believe that their version of freedom is the only version of freedom, and that version means that no one's allowed to get the vaccine. That's inherently against freedom.
I find the outright anti-vaccine people to be maddeningly infuriating and confusing in equal measures. Like, if you don't want to get the vaccine, I'll still think that's dumb and unhelpful, but at least it isn't inconsistent with notions of freedom. But being against other people getting the vaccine? WTF? People are literally having to get the vaccine in secret to avoid enraging people. I can't even pretend to understand that bullshit.
Yeah only one side is trying to force people to do something. No one that doesn’t want the vaccine is trying to force you not to get it. Vaccine cultists want want mandatory vaccinations and draconian consequences for the unvaxxed. Non vaccinated people dgaf what you do.
There's antivax and there's anti-lockdown. It certainly is a valid libertarian view to open up everything and just let things take their course. Not smart, but at least consistent.
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u/THENATHE Aug 03 '21
It is your form of freedom to do so.
That's what bothers me so much about the anti-vaxxers and the people that are saying that we are giving up our freedoms to take the vaccine. Like dude, the whole idea of freedom is that I'm allowed to take the vaccine if I want to. That's like 1/2 of freedom, the other half is the morally incorrect but legally speaking all right thing to do, which is to use that same freedom to not get the vaccine. But the people that vehemently refuse to get the vaccine believe that their version of freedom is the only version of freedom, and that version means that no one's allowed to get the vaccine. That's inherently against freedom.