James Peron
Feb 13, 2022

Ken: I basically agree but I would make one important distinction as all unhealthy choices are not equal. If they eat five cheeseburgers they do put their own health at risk, just not mine, or yours. If they refuse vaccinations or other measures to inhibit the virus, then they ARE putting the health of others at risk. To me it’s like the difference between not wearing a seatbelt and drunk driving, as Penn Jillette put it, the former puts your own life at risk, the later puts the lives of others at risk. And that’s where their liberty ends, as far as I’m concerned.

You are free to risk you own wealth or health in any stupid venture you want, but when your risk includes passing risk on to others without their consent you are no longer at liberty, but trampling it underfoot.

James Peron
James Peron

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James Peron is the president of the Moorfield Storey Institute, was the founding editor of Esteem a LGBT publication in South Africa under apartheid.

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