It's with your logic that we have the anti-vax movement, the anti-gmo one, flat-earthers and so on and so forth.
Chains and slavery being a bit overstated, but hey that's the quote.
In the long term, those few lives matter less than the billions - trillions - uncountable quadrillions - who benefit from free, Liberal cultures (capital L, not lowercase). This is not because the ends justify the means; they do not -- it is because the freedom to choose, even your own death by Darwin, is a pillar of a free society.
People who don't want to stay home anymore are not a danger to themselves only, I could not care less if they die, I actually prefer if they do. But by not following distancing orders they are a danger to others.
As of touting this as some kind of Freedom Fight is mostly a load of bullcrap. What you are missing in your perfect world is that we should not tolerate the intolerant.[0]
You want to risk your life, go at it, but you should not be allowed to risk the lives of others.
So are all the people who get the flu every year. Oh by the way which yearly kills more than has been killed yet by COVID. Guess we should lock up all those war criminals!
> What you are missing in your perfect world
lol... gotta love HN commenters who live such cozy lives that they have absolutely no perspective. Check your privilege, is that the saying? THIS is what your "stay at home" order has caused: https://reportediario.com.mx/noticias/vallarta/filas-de-cien....
THIS is what I live around. THIS is what I see. Hundreds of thousands, millions, starving and dying, so that comfortable Americans and Europeans can posh off about how "go out and you'll kill people". You don't give a shit about people ACTUALLY suffering. Just the hypothetical ones your brain tells you about, but you don't even care about the same hypothetical ones who carry the flu.
20 years ago, when you talked about mass surveillance, you were a paranoid conspirationist or a crook.
70 years ago, when spoke against the vietnam war, you were anti-patriotic or a communist.
Not to mention we can be wrong now, or right now but wrong in the future.
What about people promoting censorship? Should they be censored as a threat to free speech?
There is no idea so dangerous that it can't be discussed. Whether you should act on the dissenters' opinions is a completely separate matter.
You can allow them to speak yet consider their opinions worthless.
Total free speech is cancer.
Speaking against vaccines should be allowed. Not taking vaccines should not be
But then don't come choked up to the hospital unable to breathe and take the place of a person who followed the recommendations. You decided to do it, you deal with the consequences.
Discussion and debate is important, acting like a spoiled Karen isn't.
No, not all dissenting voices are equal. When your opinion is factually wrong you should not be allowed in the public discourse.