Ethics of Vaccine Passports Quotes

“It was as though a memo had been forwarded to every government body demanding all nations sing the same tune. The official narrative was to hibernate, with the threat of fines and imprisonment, and await a vaccine; a vaccine that would be wielded as a stick to an obedient dog.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“It was as though a memo had been forwarded to every government body demanding all nations sing the same tune. The official narrative was to hibernate, with the threat of fines and imprisonment, and await a vaccine; a vaccine that would be wielded as a stick to an obedient dog”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“It is wholly justified to label vaccine passports as draconian, coercive, and one of the most dangerous government interventions in human history; an intervention that undermined voluntary consent to medical procedures and threatened the core principles of what it means to be an autonomous human being.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“Governments supposedly represent the people and thus what the government does the people naturally are inclined to support. The alternative, in theory, would be to ask people to oppose the will of themselves.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“The covid regimes were popularized in present day democracies and were most dystopian and oppressive in places that once believed themselves "free and democratic." If there is indeed a reckoning to be had, democracy must not be spared from the conversation.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“With every government atrocity that transpires, constitutions and charters admit themselves as a vehicle to justify and legalize oppression.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain

“Alas, when the freedom of the individual is defined and woven into the freedom of an imaginary whole, the individual ceases to have any freedom uniquely their own. It is no longer your freedom, but our freedom. It is no longer about your health, but our health. It is not about you, but us.”
― Aviel Oppenheim, Ethics of Vaccine Passports: A Poor Bargain