I do not believe in stripping someone else of rights without due process. I think that I am bale to take care of my family and practice prevention. I am also seeing a divergence between the panic and what I am seeing clinically.
Additionally, I am not thinking that there is a neurological component to this disease which will disinhibit rational behavior and cause otherwise normal people to suddenly start licking my door knob to use your absurd example. Reduction a absurdum works well in rhetorical discussions, and you are there with this. However, I can practice adequate prevention and disinfection WITHOUT trampling on everyone else’s civil rights because I am irrationally afraid.
Please let us all know how you are not being tyrannical in your approach. It is clear that you would deny someone of their liberty at your whim. Are you sure you are on the proper forum. DU would probably make you feel more at home.
Ok so giving you an example of a person who should be in forced quarantine is reduction a absurdum?
I think you need to take your nose out of the Latin text books and get a damned clue.
You sound overeducated to the point of stupidity.
Question stands. What do you do with this guy?
Oh and “reductio ad absurdum” is an effective tool in making people think.
I gave you a concrete example of someone who would need to be in forced quarantine were they infected and not self quarantining.
The absurd would be for him to be free if infected and not self quarantining. You lost the argument.