"Nobody has the right to tell a person what to wear on their head"
"Nobody has the right to dislocate/harm my family"
Why? I agree with your conclusions, but I have a religious foundation for what constitutes appropriate human behavior. You and most others have no moral foundation for anything; you have personal preferences.
Changizi: "You have no right to do X".
Tyrant: "Yes I do"
Changizi: ...
This why 99% of the counter-arguments from Team Reality are fact and science based and not principled. Most of Team Reality has no actual moral foundation, for anything. Team Reality has their personal preferences, the tyrants have another set of personal preferences and if all we can point to for a moral foundation is personal preferences and emotion, then discussing studies seems like a superior approach.
There was no battle over principles because we already gave them up, pre-COVID. Therefore, the battle to be won when COVID entered the scene was a battle for emotions, and the tyrants steamrolled us with their superior media apparatus.
What if COVID had Ebola-level mortality and masks worked perfectly? That is how it was sold to people. Sometimes the technical details do matter. We already accept dress codes that require covering various body parts.
"Nobody has the right to tell a person what to wear on their head"
"Nobody has the right to dislocate/harm my family"
Why? I agree with your conclusions, but I have a religious foundation for what constitutes appropriate human behavior. You and most others have no moral foundation for anything; you have personal preferences.
Changizi: "You have no right to do X".
Tyrant: "Yes I do"
Changizi: ...
This why 99% of the counter-arguments from Team Reality are fact and science based and not principled. Most of Team Reality has no actual moral foundation, for anything. Team Reality has their personal preferences, the tyrants have another set of personal preferences and if all we can point to for a moral foundation is personal preferences and emotion, then discussing studies seems like a superior approach.
There was no battle over principles because we already gave them up, pre-COVID. Therefore, the battle to be won when COVID entered the scene was a battle for emotions, and the tyrants steamrolled us with their superior media apparatus.
What if COVID had Ebola-level mortality and masks worked perfectly? That is how it was sold to people. Sometimes the technical details do matter. We already accept dress codes that require covering various body parts.