> If your employer paid you to come in early or stay late to get the vaccine -- why refuse?

Because I make my own decisions and my willingness to do something is inversely proportional to how hard it is being pushed on me.

I would argue that if you are acting with the sole purpose to oppose other people, you aren't really making your own decisions.

Blind opposition is just as silly as blindly following the flow.

>"Blind opposition is just as silly as blindly following the flow"

I think opposition to being pressured regardless of the reasons is quite normal and healthy behavior because in most of the life situations people are being pressured into something that benefits somebody else.

An act which benefits someone else isn't necessarily a bad thing, right?

Especially when it is being forced down the throat. Yeah sure.

It's a good heuristic to be suspicious, bit not a reason by itself.

> Because I make my own decisions and my willingness to do something is inversely proportional to how hard it is being pushed on me.

I don't know you but I find this hard to believe. Which side of the road do you drive on? Do you wear a seatbelt? How fast do you drive? Do you throw your trash in the bin or on the ground? Do you wear clothes outside or go out naked? Do you go around threatening to harm people around you or just keep to yourself?

Unless you are going to tell me otherwise, I would assume you don't actually behave according to how hard you've been pushed to follow those rules but instead behave in ways that provide you the most benefit.

Come on, man, of course I don't hold "must always oppose" as a steadfast rule for everything. As you point out, that would be ludicrous. It's more that if I don't see the merit of doing something, I shouldn't do it anyway just because of peer pressure.

Driving on the designated side of the road is something I see merit in, so I do it. It avoids vehicles hitting each other with a massive success rate (unlike the vaccine, or any of the other totalitarian responses to the mind virus COVID-19).

Likewise, I don't litter because it's a destructive habit for the planet and property. It's rude. It makes all of our lives worse. Those reasons are not rooted in "people push not littering", I avoid littering because I find it distasteful and wrong by my own measures.

And on and on.

Here's a 20-year Professor of Ethics take on it:

https://odysee.com/@percep7ioneer:e/Julie-Ponesse-Ethics-Pro...