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Krssstlast Tuesday at 11:46 PM1 replyview on HN

> Accusing others of "harming" so you get to impose your bullshit unquestioned. It's always the same strategy.

Pandemics do harm people and need containment. Virus don't care what we think or want.


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isaacremuantlast Friday at 8:24 AM

Yes. Car crashes harm people too. You don't ban cars as a consequence, or ban discussion about cars, or call car proponents "anti science" or "children assassins" because children die in car crashes.

You and every authoritarian out there thinks that just by mentioning a threat, then you get to force your "solution".

You didn't contain the pandemic, btw. Actions constituted hygiene theater just like the war on terror engages in security theater. You can do more damage with the measures to protect against something but if you don't allow discussion and frame everything as a win of course you'll claim everyone else is just crazy.

Bottom line, you're an authoritarian using the same old argument to justify it.