This rationale 100% applies to people who don't exercise, eat unhealthy diets, are obese and refuse to change, etc. But no liberal would shame them like this and malign them like they're non-human, monetized burdens on society.
Also, look who isn't vaccinated & get back to us:
Also, look who isn't vaccinated & get back to us:
https://twitter.com/JustinWolfers/status/1424915885823774728
And since many suffer extreme difficulties mastering basic principles of logical reasoning, contagiousness is irrelevant to the moral principle.
The issue is whether it's we should scorn those who make unhealthy choices on the ground that they're a financial burden to society.
The issue is whether it's we should scorn those who make unhealthy choices on the ground that they're a financial burden to society.
It amazed me how many responded to the point I made here yesterday by saying: but COVID is contagious & obesity isn't, as if that had negated my point.
It's irrelevant to whether it's grotesque to mock those who die due to bad health choices:
It's irrelevant to whether it's grotesque to mock those who die due to bad health choices:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1424758096497422337
Despite making clear how irrelevant this distinction is to the moral principle at hand, I know I'm going to get these all day. Twitter really exposes how some people who participate in political debates have zero understanding of basic logical reasoning:
https://twitter.com/bunkerbuster338/status/1425090336444063758
One reason I've found this genre of headlines and discourse so repulsive - where people barely disguise their glee when an unvaccinated person dies of COVID or suggests they deserved it - is because it reminds me so much of the 1980/90s discourse on AIDS:
https://twitter.com/antihero_kate/status/1425110896314097666
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