Individual Decision-Making Autonomy
The cluster centers on debates advocating for personal liberty and individual rights to make their own choices, opposing governments, societies, or experts from deciding what's best for people. Comments criticize paternalism and authoritarianism in favor of self-determination.
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That's not really a decision we can make on behalf of the rest of society, is it?
Who are these public individuals that can decide? All choices are done by some person.
How about we could let people make that decision for themselves?
Why someone has to fix it for others. Can we let people decide for themselves?
This sounds like a value judgment or authoritarian edict. Luckily in a free society this is not for anyone to decide.
Counterpoint: Those effected by decisions should be making them and those not effected by decisions should not be making them.
Wow, Iām sure glad you are not in charge of making decisions for how all of humanity should live their lives.
I do not recognize "the collective's" right to make this decision for me.
Yeah...been hearing this stuff for 42 years. I could probably make an entirely convincing argument as to why you shouldn't try it. That's because I've heard it all.If you don't want what we have ... no worries. You won't get it.The problem is when we make decisions for other people. Things look very, very different, when it's our own butt on the line.
They don't. But they ought to have the right to decide what's good for them, even if they're wrong.