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  Re: Is no-cost software irresponsible?  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 9 Aug 2013 14:47:20
Message: <52053938$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 14:00:07 -0400, Warp wrote:

> 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?

Different situation entirely, and you know it.

>> > 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.

It is if you go out, grab them, stick them with a needle and pump 
something in them that they only have your word on being good for them.

>> 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.

Have you ever tried to put yourself in someone else's shoes?  You should 
try it sometime.

Jim


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