Re:Stay home except for essential needs
by jabroni_salad on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:02PM
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I know we're all willing to die for each others freedoms, but seniors eating it to respiratory illness and other injureds dying because the ICUs were full doesn't really have the glory factor.
Re:Stay home except for essential needs
by fennecfoxen on Monday March 16, 2020 @06:17PM
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What in God's good name are you talking about, sir?
I think you are replying to the wrong part of the thread. The post you want was written by someone with the username `strawman` who was posting patriotic poems about dying for freedom. This thread is entirely unrelated and much, much more boring.
> If merely raising the issue in such a note is sufficient to count as "freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism" these days, then by all means, sign me up for freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism.
The fetishism I refer to is one that is distinctly anti-social, since the premise is entirely "others are telling me I shouldn't do this thing, and obviously I know what's best for me, so I will do it to exercise my freedom". You are falling into the same trap.
Re:Stay home except for essential needs
by fennecfoxen on Monday March 16, 2020 @09:33PM
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Sir, the person who is fetishizing all these things, and exercising his freedom, is not a part of this conversation, and you offer no meaningful link to this conversation.
The line I quoted is an example of such anti-social behavior. I thought that much was clear.
Re:Stay home except for essential needs
by fennecfoxen on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:15PM
(#22609003)
I'm afraid not.
If merely raising the issue in such a note is sufficient to count as "freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism" these days, then by all means, sign me up for freedom at all costs libertarian fetishism. In the meantime, I am confident that our government is strong enough to withstand mild observations of this nature.