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29 Jul 2024 20:23:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Is no-cost software irresponsible?  
From: Warp
Date: 9 Aug 2013 14:00:07
Message: <52052e27@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> Look at it from the standpoint of the people you're trying to force to 
> take the injection.  They don't know that it's not an experiment, or that 
> you know what you're talking about.

So what? Neither does an unconscious person. Would you refuse to save the
life of an unconscious person because they are unable to understand what
you are doing to them?

> > Let me put it this way: If there were a country out there that regularly
> > engages in ritual sacrifice of humans, would you want to intervene?

> Yes.  That is different than telling someone "I know what's good for you 
> and you will submit to it because I say so".  To pretend that those are 
> even remotely similar situations is patently ridiculous.

Says the person who compares giving a vaccine to someone to a totalitarian
regime.

> I also reject the bullshit analogy you use to justify this - equating 
> something that is clearly immoral and just plain wrong (human sacrifice) 
> with imposing a totalitarian regime on someone because you know better 
> than they do is not the same thing.

Please, by all means explain to me how giving a vaccine to someone, saving
their life, is imposing a totalitarian regime onto them. I would be
interested to hear.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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