Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
by throwawaygh on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:00PM
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> Working off of different information is a different matter.
Moral theories that do not demand intellectual character are broken. Sincerely believing in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion does not excuse anti-semitism. Sincerely believing whatever nonsense is coming out of a youtube recommendation k-hole does not excuse ignoring the advice of public health experts.
Moral character does not exist without intellectual character.
> They also never claimed that covid is comparable to lightning
Yes they did.
> just that if you’re under 30 you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than die of covid.
That is a comparison.
> (I cant speak to the statistical truth of this, but that’s beside the point).
~50 deaths due to lightening strikes across all age groups. We were already close to 1000 confirmed COVID deaths for folks under 34 in mid-June.
Moral theories that do not demand intellectual character are broken. Sincerely believing in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion does not excuse anti-semitism. Sincerely believing whatever nonsense is coming out of a youtube recommendation k-hole does not excuse ignoring the advice of public health experts.
Moral character does not exist without intellectual character.
> They also never claimed that covid is comparable to lightning
Yes they did.
> just that if you’re under 30 you’re more likely to be struck by lightning than die of covid.
That is a comparison.
> (I cant speak to the statistical truth of this, but that’s beside the point).
~50 deaths due to lightening strikes across all age groups. We were already close to 1000 confirmed COVID deaths for folks under 34 in mid-June.