yet we force our children to be vaccinated in school in order to be part of society.
we also force other things that impinge on personal liberty, such as wearing seatbelts, getting car (and medical) insurance, etc.
I can see the argument that this is a slippery slope, such as "well, the common good dictates that I get this neuro implant to ward off the 2157 neurovirus", and unfortunately, the short answer is "it depends on the context".
Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.
as with war measures or other emergency measures, personal liberty has historically been set aside for the common good. I don't see this going away, nor should it.
The conversation should be how to draw the right balance, so that, when the emergency is over, we return to some modicum of personal liberty, while still preserving the common good.
In some cases, it means that the mandate becomes the accepted practice (e.g., child vaccinations). In others, we would hope, personal liberty returns (e.g., habeas corpus).
TL;DR: it is contextual, rather than dogmatic and a-priori
we also force other things that impinge on personal liberty, such as wearing seatbelts, getting car (and medical) insurance, etc.
I can see the argument that this is a slippery slope, such as "well, the common good dictates that I get this neuro implant to ward off the 2157 neurovirus", and unfortunately, the short answer is "it depends on the context".
Right now, vaccine holdouts are really screwing things up for us who want to return to some form of normality.
as with war measures or other emergency measures, personal liberty has historically been set aside for the common good. I don't see this going away, nor should it.
The conversation should be how to draw the right balance, so that, when the emergency is over, we return to some modicum of personal liberty, while still preserving the common good.
In some cases, it means that the mandate becomes the accepted practice (e.g., child vaccinations). In others, we would hope, personal liberty returns (e.g., habeas corpus).
TL;DR: it is contextual, rather than dogmatic and a-priori