I assumed everyone on this platform would basically be hard-core anti-mandated medicine, but I was mistaken. If there’s one mission I have after the last three years it’s not to orange pill people or purple pill them, but to persuade people that the knowledge required to mandate medical treatment on your fellow citizen is (a) not something we possess; and (b) not something we can ever possess because you’d need to know the medium and long-term, second and third and nth-order results of a complex system are simply impossible to game out.

Morever, the idea that you can violate someone’s rights “for the greater good” is the justification of every tyrant in history. The reason we have inalienable rights is ultitarian do-gooders will supply all manner of reasons why you need to do x, y and z.

Life is complex, and you cannot know the mind of God (or the Tao) or whatever you like to call it.

The only ethical road is humility and restraint.