Comment Re:Recommendation vs mandate (Score 1) 569
doesn't mean they can't write a correct document about the inalienable rights of people
We believe it's correct because it's what we've grown up to believe, and because it suits us. Plenty of people believed the monarchy was correct, because it was what they grew up with, just like the bulk of a billion Chinese believe that an authoritarian government is correct because it's what they grew up with and are comfortable with. Rights are what we define for ourselves, and give ourselves. There is no magical universal concept of "rights".
In fact it is important to understand that the principle of individual rights to be able to do with ones body as one sees fit, rather than having this 'society' impose its will upon the individual, that this principle does not prevent individuals from getting their vaccinations.
So you want the benefits of being part of a society without the responsibilities. Got it.
However whether the individuals get their vaccines or not, does not in any way give them the right to spread disease and others can definitely argue that people without vaccines shouldn't be entering some private property.
I'm more concerned with public spaces. You want to start your own private leper colony and have a party with a bunch of infection-ridden corpses-to-be, have at it. You want to sit next to me on the bus while you're incubating a nice case of otherwise avoidable mumps though, thanks for that.
If one gets a disease and spreads it, he can be held accountable (and people often are) criminally and in civil court. The right to ones own body does not imply a right to do harm to others, which you are implying.
Bullshit. It'd be virtually impossible to find the person responsible for spreading something like Pertussis, and completely impossible to prove that that particular person was responsible for fatally infecting an infant when they coughed 15 feet away at the grocery store.
Again: people's bodies belong to them and nobody else, and if you want to impose this kind of gov't upon others, I believe there will be violence directed against your attempts, fully justified violence
Again, if you want to benefit from being part of society, you should live up to the responsibility of being part of that society. What you describe though makes you a parasite, not a citizen. If you think you can "go it alone" and be completely self-sufficient, go off and live in the mountains away from the rest of us. As for the "justified violence", good luck with that. Either you'll end up in prison where your "inalienable rights" will be somewhat curtailed, or you'll be successful and build a new society where the rights you have are whatever rights you can demand from behind the barrel of a gun. Grow up.