RE: Odds and Ends — 12 July 2021

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The thing I don't get about criticism of anti-vaxxers is there should be no need for the microchip and autism nonsense in the first place. You're talking about injecting a substance into someone's body. I don't care if it's saline or heroin. If they don't wanna they don't wanna. End of story.

What's that, it's for the greater good? The list of horrible violations of bodily integrity that could serve the greater good is enormous. The point of liberty is that each decides for himself which greater good to serve and how. If one is compelled to serve some other greater good that's the greater evil.



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With few exceptions, Federal law allows employers to require COVID vaccinations and in 21 states, employers are free to refuse employment to nicotine users so in many instances employers at least have a fair amount of discretion over what folks must or must not put into their bodies.

That may not be fair or just, but that’s the world we live in, for now at least.

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I agree for the most part. My employer can ask a lot of me. I can decline or not. And if we really butt heads over some darned thing either of us can walk away. That's fair.

If a government is requiring an employer to ask something of employees though that's the same, as far as I'm concerned, as the government coercing the employees directly. It's just like getting a bank to do the gov's warrantless snooping via a KYC scheme (which is also the world we live in, for now.)

Compelling attendance at school, and then coercing a vaccination in order to receive that same compulsory service from the state -- that's serfdom with extra steps. Yet that too is the status quo.

On another note, Mattsurelee's map aligns with my own experience of Arizona. From living here I suspect shared animosity for California is all that keeps the western states from falling into civil strife over water rights and land use.

When I lived in Arkansas I did not sense any particular ill will toward Alabama. Maybe it's something only the true locals understand -- or a sports rivalry? I don't follow sports much.

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I don’t know which is funnier on that map, that New Jerseyans (although not born there, I grew up in north Jersey) hate everyone or that Floridians hate Floridians.

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