Yes. The vaccine discussions are a bit of a canary in the coal mine. If you crave “safety”, get the standard vaccinations for your family. If a novel virus comes along, put yourself in isolation. But what gives anyone the right to control me? Why should I be forced to take a vaccination? Why should I be forced to hide in my house because other people are sick? I should make my own choices. America takes a wrong turn when the government forces us to live in fear.
As they say, You have a right to swing your arm, but that right stops when you get to my nose. That’s clever, and I think it is correct. But I would not carry such thinking all the way through to: You have the right to leave your house and sit in your car at church, but that right stops if I’m afraid of a virus. No. That’s just a bridge too far.
‘You have the right to leave your house and sit in your car at church, but that right stops if I’m afraid of a virus.’
ha...that’s pretty good; wish I’d thought of using that against these sheep that I was arguing with on our local FB page...these people were accusing me of the gravest of human crimes because I don’t want to wear a mask...
But that's essentially how tyranny gets a toe-hold on a free people. It's like the argument about mandatory seat-belt or helmet wearing, namely, you may have a right to go without, but if you get injured we all pay the price in terms of increased costs, ergo, you must give up your personal freedom for the good of the collective. But there's almost nothing to which such a formula might not apply. It's how libertarians become totalitarians, without even knowing that it's happening.