Wuhan Flu and the moral rights of the government

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Inspired by a conversation I had elsewhere, the thread topic here is if the government has the moral right to order business closures, stay at home orders, etc. I believe the exact argument raised was something along the lines of if this level of disruption can be justified to save the relative handful of lives at risk, then they can easily use that same logic and public acceptance of it to do any number of far less disruptive things in the name of saving smaller number of people. Something like the governor of IL using a bloody weekend in Chicago or a school shooting to declare a state of emergency over gun violence and mandate gun confiscation, etc.


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There are two ideations of a government as a moral actor. One is the idea of judging the action acording the human rights. The other is Nobolis Oblige the state acts morally in the same manner as a person, because its actinos are the agency of a single dictatorial figure that has all moral responsibility for the state.
 

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I think that it's too early to tell.

Trump is doing everything he can to preserve both lives and the Constitution, which is why he is leaving stay-in-place orders to the governors.

Like, people forget Alaska and Hawaii are US States as well, not to mention the US territories like Puerto Rico and Guam.

Many Alaskan cities rely on regular shipments of supplies by barge, rail, and plane. There is no community spread up there right now, as well, only isolated cases at this point.

Edit: They are also losing a lot of normal tourist dollars and oil is cheap as fuck right now.
 

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