Human utility function cannot be reduced to one simple thing, not even “bodily autonomy”. I like the idea of bodily autonomy a lot, but ultimately, everything is a tradeoff.
If you don’t accept that bodily autonomy is an essential unconditional liberty, it’s a waste of time talking to you at all. No other liberties survive without that one, more fundamental than property rights: if you don’t own yourself absolutely, you own nothing.
This is a political rallying cry rather than a factual description of reality. Empirically, vaccinated people do not give up all their property, which they would if they actually near-mode believed that after their bodily autonomy was violated by vaccination, they do not own themselves absolutely, therefore they literally own nothing.
More precisely, they would be willing to spend up to 99% of their property to avoid vaccination (e.g. by moving to an isolated place), because keeping 1% of your property is obviously better than owning nothing.
Also, using bodily autonomy as an argument for abortion is begging the question. The counter-argument is precisely that part of that body is actually someone else’s. (And if you find the thought experiment with “violinist” convincing, what is your position on conjoined twins—should they be allowed to kill each other?)
Human utility function cannot be reduced to one simple thing, not even “bodily autonomy”. I like the idea of bodily autonomy a lot, but ultimately, everything is a tradeoff.
This is a political rallying cry rather than a factual description of reality. Empirically, vaccinated people do not give up all their property, which they would if they actually near-mode believed that after their bodily autonomy was violated by vaccination, they do not own themselves absolutely, therefore they literally own nothing.
More precisely, they would be willing to spend up to 99% of their property to avoid vaccination (e.g. by moving to an isolated place), because keeping 1% of your property is obviously better than owning nothing.
Also, using bodily autonomy as an argument for abortion is begging the question. The counter-argument is precisely that part of that body is actually someone else’s. (And if you find the thought experiment with “violinist” convincing, what is your position on conjoined twins—should they be allowed to kill each other?)