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  Re: Is no-cost software irresponsible?  
From: clipka
Date: 11 Aug 2013 18:31:59
Message: <520810df@news.povray.org>
Am 11.08.2013 23:27, schrieb Warp:
> clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
>>> If you could go back in time, and had the power, would you have stopped
>>> those semi-forced vaccinations from taking place, risking smallpox not
>>> being completely eradicated, with the subsequent deaths up to this day?
>
>> Yes, I might have done that. I might have taken that risk; note that a
>> risk is something that may or may not happen.
>
> So, how many lives would you consider an acceptable loss in the name of
> respecting people's freedom of choice? How many deaths would be necessary
> before you would change your opinion and accept forced vaccinations?
> A hundred? A thousand? A million? How many would you sacrifice?

By the way, the answer to this question is: As long as I have no bloody 
f***ing idea how many lives it would save and how many it would cost, 
I'd bloody f***ing advocate not imposing it on any unwilling person, and 
rather go with what can be achieved by the voluntary variant.

Heck, maybe the voluntary campaign can provide statistics about the 
risks involved that will convince more people to volunarily undergo the 
vaccination, maybe up to the point where the number of vaccinated people 
is high enough anyway for the campaign to be successful - can you rule 
this out in advance? Is that a basis on which you are willing to 
sacrifice freedom of choice without giving so much as a second thought, 
or at least accepting that others prefer to think about it twice or thrice?


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