The "Ultimate Incivility:" Keeping Ebola Guy Out of the U.S.

[roo_ster]

Caplan's "Ultimate Incivility:" Keeping Ebola Guy Out of the U.S.
[Alternate Title: Libertarian Psychosis]
http://www.unz.com/isteve/caplans-ultimate-incivility-keeping-ebola-guy-out-of-the-us/

   The Ultimate Incivility
    Bryan Caplan

    … My two central maxims:

    First, remain calm when someone questions people’s ideas or behavior. After all, maybe their ideas are false, and maybe their behavior is wrong.

    Second, take offense when someone questions people’s presence or existence. When you complain about a person’s being around irrespective of their behavior, you go too far. … That is not cool.

    The same goes, of course, for mainstream conversations about immigration. Sure, people enumerate specific complaints about foreigners’ ideas and behavior. But the goal is not to change foreigners’ minds or reform their behavior – hence near-universal apathy for keyhole solutions. The goal, rather, is to rationalize deportation and exclusion of foreigners, regardless of how they comport themselves.

    An old adage urges us to “Hate the sin but love the sinner.” My standards of civility are much less demanding but follow the same format. Getting rid of bad ideas and bad behavior is a worthy goal. Trying to get rid of people themselves, however, is the ultimate incivility.

For example, the “ultimate incivility” would be for anyone to be so morally obscene as to to question Ebola Guy “being around” in America. Do you realize that there are subhuman vermin suggesting that maybe the government shouldn’t have let Ebola Guy into the U.S. from Liberia to vomit all over Dallas?

Caplan is a sad example of the libertarian sort who don't much like other Americans to the point where he not only wants third worlders to come and harm the employment of Americans, he thinks it is wrong to keep out those with communicable fatal diseases.

[Hawkmoon]

This person (?) apparently doesn't have even a fundamental grasp of what "quarantine" means.

It seems to me that a far greater "incivility" is to allow one infected person to wander around, spreading the infection to unknown numbers of other people, in the holy name of "civility."

[brimic]

This person (?) apparently doesn't have even a fundamental grasp of what "quarantine" means.

It seems to me that a far greater "incivility" is to allow one infected person to wander around, spreading the infection to unknown numbers of other people, in the holy name of "civility."

Imagine if they would have done that with Hiv or drug resistant tuberculosis early on. Political correctness>>> public health.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

HIV was pretty widespread before they figured it out. It hides well. And it woulda caused a PC apocalypse if they quarantined it's biggest vector.


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[wmenorr67]

First read the title as "Keeping Enola Gay Out of the U.S.

Was wondering when I left and why it couldn't return.

No back to your irregularly scheduled thread drift.

[MicroBalrog]

We realize of course that Caplan had no mention of Ebola in his post?