Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by atoav on Saturday December 04, 2021 @01:43AM
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> Even worst dictators didn’t try yet to push a needle and inject some chemical substance into human body without consent.
This is literally what is done to people that are unconscious and connected to the IV. Yes,.blood is also "some chemical"
Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by bakuninsbart on Saturday December 04, 2021 @06:14AM
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Yeah, the Nazis did do a lot of medical experiments on "undesirable people", and so did the Japanese. While I'm strongly pro-vaccination and, working in a hospital, deeply annoyed (an understatement) by the unvaccinated people flooding the ICU, I still think a vaccine mandate is a pretty big consitutional issue. Force-medicating people is really the last resort of the impotent, and it sits really wrong with me. And considering the way things are going, it is completely possible that this could become a yearly thing, what happens if it is the foot in the door for more of these kinds of policies?
Re:Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'
by bmn__ on Saturday December 04, 2021 @07:41AM
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> last resort of the impotent
The quote goes "[…] last resort of the incompetent", see <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#Foundation_(1951)>.
Impotent does not make sense here, the state is actually the entity that society grants the greatest power: monopoly of violence and decisions over medical autonomy and life and death.
Very crass statement, esp. considering it's Germany we're talking about.