The fight over masks is really a debate over how Americans view our fundamental freedoms - Business Insider

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Opinion | The fight over masks is really a debate over how Americans view our fundamental freedoms. By pearkes

. Under principles of reciprocal liberty, any threat to one person's freedom or safety is a threat to the freedom or safety of all people, because that same threat may eventually be turned on whoever is avoiding it today. This approach would dictate mask-wearing not out of paternalistic concern for the wearer, but out of the wearer's concern that they may endanger the people they interact with.

The natural libertarian may reject wearing a mask in the restaurant, complain about how spaced out seats were, or go the other way entirely and assiduously dine in an N95 out of fear of the virus. Either way, others wouldn't factor much in their thinking, regardless of position. My wife and I decided that our first dinner out in a post-COVID world would be dictated by those reciprocal principles. It made the meal quite nerve-wracking by the standards of fine dining, both in terms of explaining our thinking to staff who had not encountered that sort of behavior before, and because we had to constantly look out for servers approaching the table. But we also felt more comfortable knowing that we were doing our best to treat servers as we expected to be treated ourselves.

In a system of ordered libertarian thinking, disrupting a business because an order is incorrect makes no sense; a loud argument that bothers others is just as problematic as an incorrect order. Similarly, venting frustration and petty tyranny upon service workers makes no sense to a reciprocal libertarian, because receiving that sort of treatment is such a difficult experience.

 

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pearkes FFS. If it was, we’d still be fighting over seatbelts, or more to the point, vaccine requirements for kids to attend schools. The fight over masks is whether we allow people to virtue signal their membership in a low-IQ death cult.

pearkes And also about how they view themselves in a society. We've been seeing a lack of empathy beyond limits

pearkes You’ve been hoodwinked...

pearkes And its also about spite. And jealousy. And hate.

pearkes Nope. No, it’s not. It’s about Trump and ignorance and hate.

pearkes 'Freedom' to kill yourself, your loved ones, your community, by infecting them all. Freedom to spread poison around.

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