Comment by fallingknife
3 years ago
3 years ago we wanted to rush the COVID vaccine and it probably saved millions.
I don't understand why we can't let people make risk reward judgments. Yes probably more people will die, but they were not forced.
3 years ago
3 years ago we wanted to rush the COVID vaccine and it probably saved millions.
I don't understand why we can't let people make risk reward judgments. Yes probably more people will die, but they were not forced.
I agree. Dying in anguish at the hands of your own government is far worse than dying having tried everything you could.
Did you never experience the situation where someone you care about is making a choice you think is wrong, and you want to protect them from themselves?
I'm not saying this is the right thing to do. I'm just trying to explain how it happens. People don't make good risk judgements in general, and other people think that it is good to do good by force. This is why seat belts are mandatory, smoking is discouraged, drugs are illegal, public companies traded on exchanges are strongly regulated, and so on and so forth.
> Yes probably more people will die
You really don't understand why we choose the option where less people die? We value life, I guess.
I agree with you but I also understand the argument that being given the choice between certain death and uncertain death is a form of coercion
And I'm sure that those people dying are saying to themselves "well at least I wasn't coerced"
The COVID vaccine already had an existing model to work from that was already ready to go and approved in the SARS-COV-1 vaccine nearly a decade earlier.