[ExI] Some virus statistics

[William Flynn Wallace]

Conservative libertarians - there seems to be quite a few of these.  Big
article in the paper today about a man who ran for governor, and lost, and
who owns a restaurant.  He claims that the governor is trying to make
everybody wear a mask and he says that nobody can make him wear one, and so
on.  Apparently these people think that freedom in America means that you
can do whatever you want to do, regardless.  Same people who rave over
seatbelts.  You can tell them (I have tried) that when an accident occurs
where there are more injuries and fatalities, it costs the people more
money to deal with them.  Runs up everyone's insurance costs.  That is
their right, they say.  Pig-headed.

I know that some of you are probably conservative libertarians and think
these people are giving you a bad name.  Do you?  I say that doing things
to spite other people is extremely stupid (not the same as unintelligent),
and doing things despite the harm it does to society, are not in the spirit
of the Golden Rule or any or moral principle I can think of.

Freedoms come with a price.  You may have to lose some of them to benefit
others.

bill w

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:50 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> If we hand the government dictatorial powers in order to save us from
> covid, we have a lot bigger problems than covid.  American who covet the
> power that other governments have, most Americans have the option to
> immigrate to those countries and revel in their newfound serfdom.  I choose
> freedom.  I choose a form of government which limits its own power.  I
> choose self-reliance, responsibility and accountability for my actions.
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> Not at all.  I am opposed to handing Federal government dictatorial powers
> when it cannot or will not even balance its own budget during full
> prosperity and peacetime.
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> If states want to do make rules on giving themselves the authority to make
> people wear masks and so on, then states need to write that into their
> constitutions and have their legislatures vote on them.  None of that has
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