Tue Aug 3, 2021 – 9:28 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Medical ethicists Arthur Caplan and Sarah Hull said that unvaccinated people do not “have an inalienable ‘right’ to dine at restaurants, attend shows in a theater, and travel for leisure.”
Caplan is a medical ethicist at New York University and Hull is a medical ethicist at Yale University. Caplan previously said that people should not equate anti-life policies such as euthanasia to the policies of the Nazis, but later compared then-candidate Donald Trump to Hitler in an essay.
Speaking of vaccine mandates, Caplan and Hull criticized the “continued resistance to commonsense public health measures” which show “too many people in both Europe and the U.S. have a simplistic and erroneous view of liberty.” The essay appeared recently in MedPageToday, a medical news and commentary publication.
Referring to engaging in commerce, such as eating at a restaurant or going to a theater, the pair said it does not “make sense to conflate the concept of individual rights, which inform our liberties, with that of privileges, which are predicated on each of us upholding certain responsibilities.”
They said that barring American citizens from walking into their local Burger
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