KenH
Well-Known Member
"It is unconscionable—indeed, criminally irresponsible—to predicate policies as extreme and draconian as these lockdowns on such poor models and incomplete data—particularly when the very first serious seroprevalence survey we have in the country explodes the foundation of these policies.
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t is important, particularly during times of crisis (and perceived crisis) not to confuse society with the state, not to suppose that the latter is in some way the expression of the former’s will. As Benjamin Tucker wrote, distinguishing the two from one another, “Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms.”
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Technical questions of constitutional law aside, Americans ought to be asking the more important and fundamental philosophical question of how many rights they are willing to cede and what kinds of evidence it should take to ever allow politicians and bureaucrats to do something like this again."
We Can’t Trust Governments to Manage a Pandemic
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t is important, particularly during times of crisis (and perceived crisis) not to confuse society with the state, not to suppose that the latter is in some way the expression of the former’s will. As Benjamin Tucker wrote, distinguishing the two from one another, “Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms.”
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Technical questions of constitutional law aside, Americans ought to be asking the more important and fundamental philosophical question of how many rights they are willing to cede and what kinds of evidence it should take to ever allow politicians and bureaucrats to do something like this again."
We Can’t Trust Governments to Manage a Pandemic