"More seriously, it is impractical to implement a notion of freedoms without responsibility because we live in a society.
Our actions and decisions can have serious impacts on others. In the case of COVID-19, the impacts are far-reaching and deadly.
American basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in an article rebuking athletes who refuse vaccination, mentions the magnitude of the problems that flow from the “vague philosophy” that strips deliberations on personal choice from any consideration of the greater good.
The majority of COVID-19 patients in ICU are unvaccinated.
The problem, he says, “is that the rest of us pay for those sloppy thinkers because they are the ones clogging our hospitals, crushing our economy, and keeping us from our loved ones”.
