Bioethicists: Prepare People for Public Health Coercion
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People wear protective face masks as they walk on Mouffetard Street amid the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in Paris, France, December 30, 2021. (Christian Hartmann/Reuters)
One would have thought that bioethicists and technocrats would learn from the COVID debacle that coerced public health policies can easily become exploding cigars when misapplied, and indeed, ultimately harm the very community cohesion these autocrats claim to champion. But no. A new article in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics urges that we prepare now for more mandates to prevent epidemics due to AMRs (for antimicrobial resistance, such as bacteria evolving, rendering antibiotics less effective) and to fight climate change.
The authors identify various means of persuading the public to comply with favored public health policies. The first is simple suasion, or "normative compliance.
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