Re:‘Superbug’ scourge spreads as U.S. fails to track rising ...
by EliRivers on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @02:13PM
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"That's the government's job, not private activists'."
Taking a broad view, I disagree. Everything the government is permitted to do is (or at least should be) ultimately by consent of the governed. Anything that is the government's job is only their job because the governed delegated it to them; it is the job of the governed first, delegated to the government. It is private activists' job; the government has simply been tasked with it.
I believe the governed have a moral duty to take back any such job when the government proves unable to properly execute their duties.
The line of "unable to properly execute" is, unfortunately, enormously open to interpretation. Morality isn't easy.
Taking a broad view, I disagree. Everything the government is permitted to do is (or at least should be) ultimately by consent of the governed. Anything that is the government's job is only their job because the governed delegated it to them; it is the job of the governed first, delegated to the government. It is private activists' job; the government has simply been tasked with it.
I believe the governed have a moral duty to take back any such job when the government proves unable to properly execute their duties.
The line of "unable to properly execute" is, unfortunately, enormously open to interpretation. Morality isn't easy.