Moral Frameworks for Addressing the Pandemic

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Smith and Ghate discussed these influential moral outlooks, noting a common emphasis on sacrifice, while contrasting them with Rand’s morality of rational egoism as a framework for addressing the pandemic.

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For 20 or so years, some intro ethics texts in universities have included Rand, sometimes with her own chapter. The interpretations are incompetent and dishonest, sometimes appealing to conventional intuitions. It is, however progress for Rand's ideas. Excerpts from the _Virtue Of Selfishness_ are provided.

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is action that could spread disease a violation of others right not to be diseased?

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When you talk about a "pandemidc" you are talking about a group phenomenon, the existence of which Ayn Rand recognized in a Q and A from the "Global Balkanization" or "For the Record" lecture at Ford Hall Forum pertaining to the nature of politics. So I think it must be discussed in group terms
A non-lockdown would threaten only the threatenable; meaning people too stupid to live. If you are in the most vulnerable age and condition (I am 74 with a touch of Afib) isn't it incumbent upon you to do the smart thing if the information is there? I'm buttoned up like a space suit
Given that at this time, there is no vaccine or reliably safe and effective treatment for COVID, could not a case be made that an infected person who has not self-isolated is using force by imposing himself on the population at large knowably carrying a contagious disease that could reasonably be predicted to be fatal to some persons in the general population?

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