Lest we forget just how totalitarian things got with Covid, please leave in the comments example where individuals, groups or companies went beyond what was mandated to “help save us from Covid.”
I’ll start with a couple of the most obvious:
~ Masking outdoors: Billions of people wore masks outdoors, despite it not being mandated.
~ Snitches: Millions of people went out of their way to enforce the mask mandates, despite not having any responsibility for doing so.
Intention basically doesn’t matter in these societal-level contexts.
But if one mistakenly thinks intent it does — and our normal everyday intuitions about free will, moral responsibility and culpability bias one to think it does matter — one will keep looking to find the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🛎️ Perceived Emergencies 🔔
🛎️ Do Not Justify 🔔
🛎️ Violating Civil Liberties 🔔
1/ There will be a next perceived emergency. If it looks sufficiently different than what we just experienced w/ Covid, most won’t generalize from their experience at all.
2/ For example, I have found that individuals in my Iranian community are no more likely to have seen the totalitarian flavor of what transpired for Covid, despite themselves fleeing something similar.
3/ There is an implicit bias for people to believe it is reasonable that a perceived emergency justifies overturning civil liberties.