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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by jeofken on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:46AM
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It it kills as many per year, but technically is not infectious, it would still deserve the same moral weight, so the similie holds.
There are many ways you can use force and threats to make people live healthier, if you don’t consider them the owners of their bodies that is
Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by tpm on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:17AM
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But Google is not trying to make people live healthier, it doesn't care about that. Google is trying to prevent hazardous working conditions for their employees. All vaccination mandates are about that: they don't care about the vaccinated or unvaccinated person, they care about the risk that person presents for its environment. In that sense the obesity analogy completely fails.
Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S...
by meiraleal on Thursday July 29, 2021 @11:10AM
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Obesity is culturally infectious. If you have fat friends/family/SO you will get fatter in most cases (more than 1%). It is also acutely deadly as most of thr top10 death causes are directly related to diet and lifestyle.
Important to note that obesity is excess of fat related to general bodyweight, not only total weight.
Google could ban fatties from coming into the office incentivising fat loss, you could force fat people to self isolate or not allow them to travel, also to incentivise healthy loving and make it shameful to contribute to the obesity epidemic.
This is all ridiculous, but the moral logic would be similar. The same is true for driving and weapons, which are dangerous.