Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by MisterMower on Friday November 05, 2021 @12:47PM (#29121769)

Help me understand the limiting principle in that logic. What prevents particularly egregious abuses of personal liberty using this as a pretext?

For example, people might get struck by lightning walking by your house, so we must force you to install a lightening rod on your house to protect the collective.

Where does it stop, and how do you make that determination?

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by epicide on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:21PM (#29122182)

The lightning example isn't really analogous. Sure, one or two people might get struck by lightning, but they're not then going to continue spreading lightning strikes once they leave my house. Moreso, those (non-existent) spreadable lightning strikes aren't going to mutate to get worse as they propagate.

There isn't an easy or obvious answer to where it stops and how to determine that, but that goes both ways. We can't just have zero laws for fear that the laws might overextend themselves.

Unfortunately, we have to deal with nuance either way.

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