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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by SirSavary on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:31AM (#26555475)
You better hope that the judge handling your case doesn't stumble upon this comment thread. Your lack of Mens Rea isn't going to fly if you're caught meta-discussing the whole thing.

Also, manslaughter?

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Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by rootusrootus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:27PM (#26556877)
> I have no INTENTION of HARMING anyone.

I feel the same way when I'm doing 150mph down the highway. And yet...

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by mrkramer on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:04PM (#26557309)
If you kill somebody you will be charged for involuntary manslaughter or constructive manslaughter depending on what speed limit was but if I sit next to you unvaccinated in a waiting room should I be charged as well?
Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by rootusrootus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @03:41PM (#26559441)
Are you asking for an ethical opinion, or legal one? I am no lawyer, I have no idea if you could be on the hook for reckless endangerment. If you know that your choice is risky, and you fail to act, then there are circumstances when you could be criminally liable. But usually these are situations where the law prescribes a duty to act.

Are you comfortable endangering those around you because protecting them is an inconvenient imposition on your freedom? That's an entirely different issue.

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by Omnitaus on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:24PM (#26557574)
I mean if you're against vaccines, the best public health measure since soap, perhaps you're the weakest link we're begging natural selection to act on. Hope you don't use glasses, take antibiotics, receive surgery, or benefit otherwise from the million and one things humans have invented so as to not deal with random selection dependent on changing external stimuli
Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by mrkramer on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:20PM (#26558323)
>I mean if you're against vaccines, the best public health measure since soap, perhaps you're the weakest link we're begging natural selection to act on.

I'm not against vaccination I'm against mandatory vaccination and limiting my human rights if I don't vaccinate. Nobody will prevent you from visiting a country if you don't use glasses, take antibiotics or anything else you mentioned.

I never visited Africa but I heard there are some security measures regarding Malaria but c'mon forbidding someone to work or travel only because he or she didn't get vaccinated against 1 pathogen is over the top.

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by selimthegrim on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @02:44PM (#26558653)
I guess you're against sovereignty of nations other than your own? Plus how are they going to buy your country's vaccine if you/your countrymen won't take it?
Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by mrkramer on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:59AM (#26555821)
And btw I understand what manslaughter is but again I'm not a lawyer. Refer me to any case or cases where someone is guilty of spreading a virus without intent(Involuntary).
Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @01:38PM (#26557776)
Laws adopted in the course of the HIV pandemic in many jurisdictions made various acts that were more likely to spread the virus criminal if you knew you were infected unless other people put at risk were informed of the fact and consented to the risk, whether or not you intended to cause harm.
Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by WJW on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @11:56AM (#26556518)
First google result: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit.... It's not difficult to find more examples.

If you know or could reasonably suspect you have a lethal virus and still go out without taking proper precautions then that is absolutely something people have sued over many many times.

Re:The virus that causes the common cold can effectively boo... by mrkramer on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @12:22PM (#26556816)
It is unclear whether defendant was aware of having a HIV. It seems like he had no intent of spreading a disease and had limited or no knowledge of having it.

"I didn’t really do it intentionally but when we were drunk it ended up happening”."

How the case ended?