Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
1) The EU's unelected boss 'suggesting' mandatory vaccination...
I've mooted compulsory jabs before and can see the arguments for both sides, but on balance am firmly against them. I've no problem with an elected politician suggesting them, because he can be told - electorally - to f^ck off. However, I do find it positively sinister when an unelected person the public cannot remove starts heading in such a direction.
2) The US Supreme Court looking at re-framing a woman's right to choose...
The delineation of power in the US means that, anyway, each time their Supremes make a decision outside of the Constitution, a state can keep legalising / criminalising whatever it wants in slightly different ways, pending a further SC judgement. But what is really happening here is a minority of the US's population, mostly but not all on the religious right, are trying to impose their ideology on everyone else.
Both revolve around the same absolute principle, both will probably have enormous consequences.
I've mooted compulsory jabs before and can see the arguments for both sides, but on balance am firmly against them. I've no problem with an elected politician suggesting them, because he can be told - electorally - to f^ck off. However, I do find it positively sinister when an unelected person the public cannot remove starts heading in such a direction.
2) The US Supreme Court looking at re-framing a woman's right to choose...
The delineation of power in the US means that, anyway, each time their Supremes make a decision outside of the Constitution, a state can keep legalising / criminalising whatever it wants in slightly different ways, pending a further SC judgement. But what is really happening here is a minority of the US's population, mostly but not all on the religious right, are trying to impose their ideology on everyone else.
Both revolve around the same absolute principle, both will probably have enormous consequences.