On 3/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Sullivan</b> <<a href="mailto:phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu">phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I haven't kept up with the evolution of the list's relation to politics. Is<br>it okay to ask whether efficient use of quarantine tactics works well with<br>libertarianism?<br>
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I'm a libertarian, and SARS was one of the two occasions in my life
where I've gone so far as to spend a couple of hours on the phone
chasing down government officials to try and get them to do something
(not that it worked, but fortunately the governments in places like
China and Canada were more on the ball), so I don't see a
contradiction. Libertarianism can be summarized as "an it harm none, do
as you will"; spreading a deadly disease certainly qualifies as harm.<br>