Tomer Ravid

2021

Guns vs. Curves (pdf)

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Abstract

In the context of the totalitarian response to COVID-19, I argue that there is no right to avoid natural phenomena; there is only a right to avoid force by other humans. However, I argue that while the pandemic has been treated as a human choice, the totalitarian measures have been treated as a natural phenomenon. I explain why human force is, in the long run, much more dangerous than natural disasters.