{"id":63460,"date":"2014-11-11T00:44:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=63460"},"modified":"2014-11-11T00:44:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T05:44:53","slug":"all-governments-turn-to-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex\/2014\/11\/all-governments-turn-to-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"All Governments Turn To Tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"
November 11, 2014<\/div>
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By MoneyMorning.com.au<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

I recently returned from a business trip to the US.<\/p>\n

My trip involved travelling in what I now call the Ebola Triangle.<\/p>\n

I arrived in Dallas, Texas. This is where the first and only US patient died from Ebola.<\/p>\n

I caught a connecting flight to Baltimore, Maryland. That’s not far from the National Institutes of Health, where the government <\/strong>quarantined the nurse who treated the deceased patient.<\/p>\n

A few days later, I travelled to New York, dropping the hire car off at Newark International Airport. This is where the New Jersey government quarantined an aid worker who recently returned from Liberia.<\/p>

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I left New York on 22 October. Today is the 3rd of November. Ebola has a 21-day incubation period. That means in 11 days I’ll be officially in the clear. Who wants a hug…?<\/p>\n

To say that the US media was in a high state of frenzy about Ebola is an understatement.<\/p>\n

It was the lead story on the main news channels each night. And now this news breaks, as reported in the Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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‘The U.S. Ebola debate Thursday centered on a small town in Maine, a governor vowing to use the “full extent” of his power to quarantine a humanitarian nurse, and the defiant nurse herself taking a rogue bicycle ride.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) said he plans to turn to legal measures to force Kaci Hickox, who recently returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, to remain quarantined at her home until any risk she might be infected with the virus has passed.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘LePage said negotiations with Hickox and her attorneys had broken down “despite repeated efforts by state officials” to find a compromise, such as allowing her to go outside while keeping her distance from public places or other people. In a statement, he said that because Hickox “has been unwilling to follow the protocols,” the state would seek legal authority to restrict her movements until the period for possible infection has passed.’<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hmmm. Interesting. On the surface, this puts libertarian-minded<\/a> people in a tricky spot. All forms of government oppression are bad. But what if someone is putting others at risk?<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t the government<\/strong><\/a> have the right to infringe on an individual’s freedom in order to protect others?<\/p>\n

Let’s see…<\/p>\n

Slam dunk for the ‘harm principle’<\/strong> <\/div>\n<\/p>\n

This should be easy to figure out if we abide by John Stuart Mill’s ‘Harm Principle’. It reads:<\/p>\n

‘The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.<\/em>’<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a slam dunk.<\/p>\n

The governor of Maine has the right to use power against Kaci Hickox’s will in an effort to prevent her from harming others.<\/p>\n

Easy. Or is it?<\/p>\n

Perhaps it isn’t that easy. At what point can a government<\/a> decide that someone could harm others? It suggests that authorities have the right to use pre-emptive action.<\/p>\n

And if you agree with the use of pre-emptive action, at what point should the government be able to use it?<\/p>\n

To use a different scenario…<\/p>\n