[ExI] vaccine dark humor

Dave S sparge at gmail.com
Mon Dec 27 17:03:28 UTC 2021


On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 11:49 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2021 at 16:36, Dave S via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Personal freedom is limited when it involves endangering others. You
> should be free to make your own health decisions as long as they don't
> endanger others. Don't want to vax? Fine: stay home or stay away from
> others. Don't want to wear a mask? Same deal.
> >
> > These are common sense, whether they're mandated or not.
>
> Ohhh, personal freedom, is it really?
> Somebody said that when we had the lockdowns, in practice what that
> meant was that the middle and upper classes hid in their homes and the
> lower classes delivered stuff to them.
> Not much freedom for the manual workers.
>

They're free not to work, of course, but given that they can't afford that
luxury, mandates aiming to ensure safe working conditions seem like a good
thing, no?

-Dave
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