Lincoln
Democracy in action
“.it is probable I have been more presuming than becomes me. However, upon
the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be
wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is
better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I
discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them." Lincoln
Lincolns view of the nature of citizens contribution to Democratic dialogue
“It was one of Lincoln’s ways of working out his chief value to the country,
and that value was his clear sense from the start it was our democratic scheme
that was at stake, and that if it was to be saved, every citizen who could aid
must help to give all that was in them.
Lincoln seems to have put it something like this to himself. Everybody in the
country has had a part in bringing this thing about; everybody feels they have
a right to say how things shall be handled; everybody that is worth their salt
is going to exercise that right, and they are going to do it according to the
kind of person they are – according to their temperament, their training, their
self-control, their meanness, and their goodness. If we are going to put this
thing through and prove that citizens can govern themselves, we must get from
them what they can give, and we must let them give it in their own way.” Source: The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Tarbell, 1917
To COVID vaccinate or Not COVID
vaccinate Horatio that is the question.
1. If research provides sufficient evidence
catching COVID increases your probability of death, and negative health effects.
2. If research also provides sufficient
evidence Covid Vaccine increases probability of life, and reduced negative
health effects after accounting for possible side effects.
3. Accepting based upon recorded COVID cause
of death and health effects data 1 is always true.
4. If 2 is false
5. and we do/do not take the Covid
vaccine we both have the same chance of suffering an early death or negative
health effects.
6. If 2 be true
7. and I take the Covid vaccine, and you
do not I reduce my chance of an early death or negative health effects and you increase
your chances of an early death or negative health effects.
8. So, given catching COVID is highly
probable the logic would conclude it is wise to take the Covid vaccine if you
wish to prolong your life and not incur negative health effects.
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