[Lnc-business] Quarantine

[Joshua Katz]

Let me ask it this way:  Assume X is 100% fatal and really, really
contagious.  Is it then acceptable, as a libertarian, to forcibly
confine people who have been in contact with someone with the disease?
 If so, then the facts that we don't have are relevant, and we should
remain silent.  If not, then the fact that information is missing is
irrelevant.
Joshua A. Katz
Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)


On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Alicia Mattson <agmattson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't forget that platform plank 3.4 includes the sentence:
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> "However, we support control over the entry into our country of foreign
> nationals who pose a credible threat to security, health or property."
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> That is more relevant to the Thomas Duncans of the world than to the nurse
> from Maine.
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> But I agree with Scott that a key element here is at what point people with
> Ebola become contagious, and we don't really know the answer to that, so I
> don't think we should attempt to stake out a position on something we don't
> understand.
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> When we did a press release blaming the Ferguson incident situation on
> racial profiling as a part of the drug war, we didn't yet know that the kid
> had just strong-arm robbed a convenience store.  When the rest of the story
> became known, we looked silly for having spoken in ignorance.
>
> -Alicia
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> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Scott L. <scott73 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> Considering that the United States  Centers for Disease Control  doesn't
>> know what the hell they are doing:
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>> http://nypost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-pulls-poster-saying-ebola-can-spread-through-a-sneeze/
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>> I don't think the National Libertarian Party should take any position on
>> how to deal with Ebola until the mode of transmission and the incubation
>> period are, as best as possible, definitively decided by medical scientists.
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>> I especially do not want the National Party to straightjacket our
>> candidates into a single position on an issue on which there is nowhere near
>> a consensus within the libertarian movement.
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>>    Scott Lieberman
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>> “Philosopher and historian William Durant once said "Nothing is often a
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>> good thing to do, and always a clever thing to say."
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>> When there is something on the horizon, many people very early cry "We
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>> have to do something!"  as if doing something that makes the situation
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>> worse is preferable to waiting for more information to make a wise
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>> decision.
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>> Rahm Emanuel said "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And
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>> what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you'd think you
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>> could not do before."
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>> I suppose I would like a statement like:
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>> "We do not have enough information yet to determine the best policy
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>> decisions.  Everything we know so far is that although there is a
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>> great deal of fear, the actual risk is vanishingly small.  The
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>> important thing to do in this situation is to take reasonable
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>> precautions while gathering information, and resist efforts of those
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>> who would use a crisis to take advantage of the fear to grab power and
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>> infringe on our freedoms in ways they could not do before."
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>>    Marc Feldman”
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