The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

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If your body does not belong to you, what does?

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VM — Should Participation in Vaccine Clinical Trials be Mandated?, Jan 12 … Virtual Mentor

I find it hard to believe this is genuine, but it seems to be. Already it seems mad progressives have 'progressed' from claiming ownership of your dead body, to discussing whether they can claim ownership of your live one. Did you ever read anything more chilling than the cold comparison between military conscription and being forced by law to submit to medical experiments;

In both conscription and obligatory trial participation, individuals have little or no choice regarding involvement and face inherent risks over which they have no control, all for the greater good of society.

Where does this 'society' evil end? And where do such people get their confidence that they are infallible judges of the 'greater good?'

h/t Trooper Thompson

8 responses to “If your body does not belong to you, what does?”

  1. witteringwitney Avatar
    witteringwitney

    Tom, I think that it comes under ‘selective freedom of speech’, one aided and abetted by a compliant (and dictatorial) political class, aided and abetted by a compliant (in their pocket) media…..

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  2. N. Mouse Avatar
    N. Mouse

    That is really a bit too much. It’s starting to sound a bit like Jury Duty with much more unpleasant effects. And who is to blame if something goes wrong during these trials? The government? The companies running them? The doctors? Or yourself?
    Eventually they’ll have you blaming yourself.

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  3. Moggsy Avatar
    Moggsy

    I do wonder if the attitude is just where the welfare state gets to, sooner of later.

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  4. jameshigham Avatar
    jameshigham

    for the greater good of society
    Shudder greatly.

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  5. Trooper Thompson Avatar
    Trooper Thompson

    Ta for the hat tip. Creepy, huh?

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  6. Tom Paine Avatar
    Tom Paine

    In Britain, I am sure that’s true. The National Health Service did not nationalise healthcare, it nationalised our bodies. Since our personal choices affect our health, and since our health affects the costs of the NHS, the government and its astroturf chorus in fake charities and other lobby groups feel entitled to dictate them.
    But this story is from the USA, land of the free and home of the brave!

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  7. The Travelling Toper Avatar
    The Travelling Toper

    Perhaps making compulsory vaccine testing mandatory for all members of the medical profession is the ethical answer.

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  8. Moggsy Avatar
    Moggsy

    Yes, they argue because the state pays for your health care (forgetting it is done with money they extort from you) it is moral for them to interfere with your lifestyle if they don’t approve of how it affects you by costing them your money.
    So booze, burgers and anything else will be taxed and/or a crime.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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