Quote:Are you alright with keeping all the freedom you have at the price of an increased risk, even if that risk is small ((1-2%)), that someone else might die because of it and a EQUAL reduction ((1-2%)of your freedom could reduce that?Yes.
Everybody dies - one death per person. There's no way to increase that number. An increased risk that somebody might die is only an increased risk that somebody might die sooner rather than later.
And the proposed reduction in freedom doesn't apply to just me - it applies to everyone, including people not yet born. What right do I have to impose restrictions on somebody I don't even know, just to be allowed to live one more hour that I wouldn't have?
Reduced freedom for everybody just to get a few more years of life for a few people - that's too high a price, in my opinion.
(If there was a way to get that few more years of life for a few people without trampling on the freedom of everyone, then I'd say "go for it"... but that isn't what we're discussing here.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012