[Serious] Good People

[John 6IX Breezy]

Again, the issue is not whether you can get your head around this. The issue is whether this was a reasonable thing for the Chinese government to do. If there are tangible utilitarian ends, to what extent is social pressure or governmental command justified. Is requiring vaccine shots for participation in normal life something that we have the right to demand (regardless of whether personally we think such shots are good)? Is demanding such shots substantially different from a one-child policy, from a moral point of view? 

If you want to get back on topic you could.

Right; and accompanying this is an underlying variable that I haven't been able to communicate successfully. 

Which is that perhaps nothing is more evil than the person who thinks they are justified in their mistreatment of others. People can do some very heartless things once they believe they are fighting for a good cause. There's an irony in that: Once I genuinely believe that your lack of vaccination is going to kill several people down the line, I suppose even the act of killing you could be seen as heroic.

Perhaps this is just a classic utilitarian vs deontology question? However, doing a brief google search it seems that deontology is coupled with duty and obligation. If so, why did you mention duty in what I thought was a utilitarian question? I suppose part of the problem here is that my knowledge of ethics is extremely limited.