Here again is my piece on pandemic Australia
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
And below, a thread with some of the email responses to it:
From an Australian expat:
From a frustrated Australian:
This writer professes to dislike libertarians, but from the rest of his email, it sounds like Australia could use a lot more libertarians!
A couple of short ones:
On the difficulty of lengthy lockdowns:
From an American married to an Aussie:
Another interesting response
Another critic of the piece:
Here's another critic of the piece, about which I'll have thoughts in the next tweet
In response I just want to reject the premise that *freedom from fear* is synonymous with liberty. It is a good, to be sure, but not the same good. Many people fear liberty more than authoritarianism.
Another critique followed by another response:
Lots of *we disagree, fair enough* stuff here, but one point I want to make forcefully: objecting to *preventing Aussies from leaving the country* and other draconian restrictions isn't *abstract philosophizing*! The infringements on liberty are real, not theoretical!!
Another frustrated Aussie:
Another Australian emailer:
One of several Aussies with partners abroad who wrote me:
Generalizations are fine but some of these dissenters seem unaware that a quarter of their country disagrees with them and share the views of some folks in this thread.
Two more emails from Down Under from very different perspectives:
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