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| Subject: Quarantine Without Tyranny Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:39 am | |
| Different rationale, similar guards.
You can be worried about two different things at the same time. Really. Such as disease and the erosion of civil liberties. Or the simultaneous threats of right-wing authoritarianism and left-wing authoritarianism.
The right and left each champ at the bit to take down some aspects of your freedom, though they have different preferred rationales, often deployed with feigned reluctance as a necessary means of staving off the other team’s attacks. The “for your own protection” mantra provided by public health concerns, or a big earthquake, is an almost-perfect way to attack individualism without setting off the right-wing or left-wing tribal alarms that normally at least keep each tribe on guard against incursions by the other.
Yet, very obviously, once a crisis like CV presents the opportunity, each tribe trots out the list of its favorite restrictions, likely ones it has championed for decades, whether in times of crisis or times of calm.
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