• Wirrvogel@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    If you run around with Covid making others sick, you do not just weigh a risk for yourself, you are also inflicting it onto others. If too many do that, society breaks because hospitals get overwhelmed, firefighters and law enforcement are sick, the grocery store has to close and the government stops working. Children are unattended and whatever else.

    If you do not wear a set belt your broken body takes up a hospital bed too, or are you going to accept the weight of your decision and abstain from health care because you inflicted that harm on yourself? Be welcome to not wear a seatbelt then, but make sure to have a big sticker on your car that says: “My head injury was my choice, so do not help.”

    • nomadjoanne@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think

      1. Most people are actually mostly reasonable most of the time because they don’t want to die or be seriously injured
      2. Generally then, your scenario is unrealistic
      3. If it were true, that most people were just dying to get brain damage in car accidents we could probably deal with it in a non-authoritarian way

      Consider the billions per month alcohol and tobacco cost public health systems. We still let people do these things. Frankly I’d very much be in favor of taxing smokers more if they wanted to use the public health system.

      The reality is, you just like a more controlling society as I like a more free one.