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I'm really conflicted here. If conservatives insist on killing themselves by being anti-science, I should support their right to die as they insist.
But I don't support their burden on shared resources (hospitals) on their way out. So many people who don't subscribe to those conspiracy theorist views died as collateral damage during the pandemic because the hospitals didn't have the resources to support all of their usual burdens plus the wave of COVID-ill vaccine deniers.
Let people opt out of services for a very small tax incentive, it will be hilarious schadenfreude.
No no no no no nope not even as a joke.
If you can financially gain from opting out, very poor people will have no choice but to opt out and risk it. Proven time and time again. People should not be allowed to waive their rights for petty personal gains. Your rights are unwaivable, that's what makes them rights.
Your rights are absolutely able to be waived, they just can't be taken away. It's a subtle but meaningful difference.
If you're being compensated to waive them, you aren't waiving them freely. So it's being taken away.
That's a fair point.
That's entirely valid but not the same as "your rights are unwaivable".
Agreed on the whole thing up until "your rights are unwaivable". If that were the case then those are not your rights to begin with. Freedom includes the freedom to abstain.