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Originally Posted by Mathgod
I'm not convinced that social safety nets have anything to do with increasing "me first" attitudes. The US has always had much more of a me-first attitude prevalent in its culture than Canada has, despite having inferior social safety nets compared to Canada's. How would you explain the causal link between one and the other?
Regarding mandatory vaccines... in most cases I think slippery slope arguments are based on irrational fear and cynicism, but in the case of mandatory vaccines, I do think there may be a legitimate concern. Once government gets accustomed to mandating vaccines, the question is where do they choose to draw the line? Will flu shots be mandated for everyone every year? For future pandemics, what's to stop governments from hastily mandating vaccines that have not been thoroughly tested?
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I can see the other side of the social safety nets for sure and maybe I'm not conveying exactly what I mean. It's more a general sense of entitlement I find. In our quest for equality among all, in regards to housing, feelings, pronouns, right to spread hatred around as free speech I feel as though we are giving too much value to everyone's opinion on everything if that makes sense.
Everywhere we look we see decisions being made to appease the vocal minority. I could be wrong but I feel like individualism is at an all time high, where most people believe that their beliefs, needs and feelings outweigh others'. Protests at hospitals about vaccines is a prime example.
As for the slippery slope, there is no slope, there's no hill, there's no bump in the road. This is an isolated incident where 25% of the adult population is actively sabotaging our society. The government has never tried to mandate a vaccine and I don't but that it looks at this like an opportunity to do so. People are dying and even more people are having their lives destroyed by missing surgeries or receiving inadequate health care.
I think the best solution would be no vaccine = no covid health care. Easy, don't trust the health care system enough to get a couple jabs that hundreds of millions of people have gotten? Then you shouldn't trust them to bail you out. I don't want to get into the Hippocratic oath or talk about drunk drivers and violent criminals that get medical care. This is an isolated incident that is tearing our nation apart and decimating our health care system. The government should sack up and actually do something about it.