04-19-2020, 07:21 PM
(04-19-2020, 02:36 PM)6andcounting Wrote: Rights aren't being limited before or after the crisis. The limiting of individual rights is occurring as part of the government's response to the crisis. A total shutdown (if you can call it that) may be the legitimate response in this case, but how to we protect against it being used in cases where we have reason to believe it's not a legit response?
Well, again, first and foremost you don't protect against that by reflexively disobeying important measures to fight an epidemic. I think that's a sound starting point to answer that question.
Further I would still say you protect against future, possibly illegit responses by determining whether the response is legitimate or illegitimate first. There are educated people that deal with this kind of scenarios. Listen to them. And if there's an overreach, if the experts don't overwhelmingly support certain restrictions, then I can see protests and complaints and all that stuff. Usually public opinion is a rather effective tool (though I can see how this is a tougher concept for the US).
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