Friday, September 10, 2021

To my unvaccinated and maskless friends, not that I have many:

 


In the 7-2 ruling handed down by the US Supreme Court in 1905 in the case of a mandated smallpox vaccination, the honorable justices declared that one man’s liberty, cannot deprive his neighbors of their own liberty — in this case by allowing the spread of disease.

Writing for the majority, Justice John Marshall Harlan noted that “real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”

Put in a simpler way which you might understand:

Your rights end where my nose begins.

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