What About Excess Mortality? – Questions For Corbett #073

Paul says:

I agree that arguments on the excess deaths or anything else are for the purpose of occupying scarce bandwidth for discussion in order to displace more important discussions.

Especially the question of whether the government exists for the purpose of keeping us safe.

I really wish more freedom-promoting personalities would provide strong philosophical arguments against paternalism, and put the amount of time and effort that the investigations into these numbers and other science-based discussions requires.

Most especially as Corbett mentioned the argument for freedom must include “even in the event of 50% perhaps even 90% mortality rate, nobody is justified in destroying liberty.

I find the following two questions people are very poor at even considering:

For what are we living?

What is the function of the economy?

The first question is one that only an individual can answer and only for oneself. Since nobody else can answer this question, each of us is living for what we choose to live.

The second question is universal – the function of the economy is to provide us with the means to work for those things for which we are living.

From these two principles, I conclude that if I choose to go into danger, including the danger of a terrible virus, I have the freedom to do such so long as I am not agressing against others. The same is true f I choose to protect myself from the danger.

The first conclusion seems not well addressed by personalities that I subscribe to across the various different forums and website I read. I wish they would address it, because all I can find is that my normal existence – eating, peeing, pooping, eating, breathing, etc., cannot be considered as an aggressive activity, but I don’t have strong arguments to support this claim, and it nags at me.

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