he's just part of the swamp. — 3017amen
and forced vaccine. — Ergosum
The Court held that "in every well ordered society charged with the duty of conserving the safety of its members the rights of the individual in respect of his liberty may at times, under the pressure of great dangers, be subjected to such restraint, to be enforced by reasonable regulations, as the safety of the general public may demand" and that "[r]eal liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others."
As long as, by accepting that the government can, legally, force a vaccine into you, you no longer live in a free society, then I guess that's that. — Book273
...the government can, legally, force a vaccine into you...
A free society always has some restrictions and some unavoidable duties. — Michael
Ergo: Not a free society.
Just own it. — Book273
And suddenly, things felt different Tuesday. It was that cowardly GSA woman finally throwing in the towel. It was Laura Ingraham admitting it was over the night before. It was Donald Trump pardoning the turkeys, a self-abasing ritual for a president in the best of circumstances, but these were the worst of circumstances, and it was actually the first time in his presidency that I felt any empathy for him as I sat there imagining for, oh, at least 1.3 seconds what it must have taken for him to haul his lazy septuagenarian girth out there to do that.
But more than any of those images, it was the sight of Joe Biden and his new national security team standing up there and introducing themselves to America. Serious people. Public servants, who are in this for the right reasons. Not a grifter or goner in the bunch. People who are qualified for the jobs to which they’re nominated, and people who will be given rein to do those jobs without having to worry that the president is going to tweet at 5:37 a.m. that he’s been rethinking things and maybe it’s time to sell Alaska after all. — Michael Tomasky
:sweat:Why 'waste my vote' on Biden when he cannot win my resident state (Georgia)?
— 180 Proof
:wink: — creativesoul
Refusal, during a fucking global pandemic, to wear a mask, socially distance, etc is not substantively different from refusing to e.g. bathe or clean your clothes, wear a seatbelt, drive sober or with auto-insurance, stop @red traffic lights, use toilets, ... which is just being, in a word, an anti-social cunt.... continual fear and danger of violent death, and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, XIII
Refusal, during a fucking global pandemic, to wear a mask, socially distance, etc is not substantively different from refusing to e.g. bathe or clean your clothes, wear a seatbelt, drive sober or with auto-insurance, stop red traffic lights, use toilets, ... which is just being an, in a word, anti-social cunt. — 180 Proof
Don't tell me . . . — Book273
I submit you do not know what free means, having at best a schoolboy's "understanding." That is, as evidenced by your posts here, you have no idea. If you're interested in the topic, I refer you to Kant, but I doubt you're interested.The issue that I take is with the description "free", — Book273
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