Originally Posted by
FlitBen
Privileging or tribalized conditions? There are exigencies where such clauses are allowed for in extremis, in which militarized justice applies within mission as example. Public care units OTOH are not halls of enlisted where force protection is prioritized and noncombatant needs are made external to core parameters.
I doubt most communities are so degraded as to allot basic services according to whether one is profiled on a control list of the more ‘deserving or useful'. If civil society is fallen to a point where weak and ailing members are forsaken at first opportunity, it would no longer be civic or shared above all.
It has nothing to do with this. It's a simple public economics issue. COVID is expensive to treat and generates a ton of other externalities as discussed above, and yet there is a safe and effective method of preventing it/minimizing its (financial) consequences that many people in the US do not want to partake in. It's their freedom and choice but this choice should have (financial) consequences too b/c otherwise we encourage moral hazard type of behavior which distorts markets and pricing, and if unchecked could actually lead to market collapse. That is unless you actually support the type of state where there is no (financial) accountability for individual actions that could hurt others or society more broadly.
Oh, and heads up, according to your definition of tribalizing we have already fallen as a society then e.g., insurers can charge smokers more while you cannot send your child to a public school (and actually probably majority of private schools) without
mandatory vaccinations.