(May 10, 2021 at 9:29 pm)Eleven Wrote: Perhaps these people are confusing selfish for evil. At least that's how I perceive it.
Plus, the arguments against, say, the one-child policy are far more sound than the arguments against the COVID-19 vaccine. At any rate, there's been a lot of serious issues resulting from the one-child policy. Taking out the pandemic that's been plaguing the world for well over a year, vs. the autonomy of not taking two brief jabs to the arm (thus undermining the march to herd immunity and making this pandemic go on for longer than it has to).
You can see the asymmetry here, right? The key difference is when you can weigh the utilitarian arguments for and against something and the arguments for one side are all hollow, that's when you really need to listen to a utilitarian imperative.
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