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Why Liberals Should Oppose the Lockdown

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The problem with authoritarian governments, even ones you like, is that they don’t restrict their exercise of power to ends of which you approve.

A government that forces you to stay inside your home, deprives you of your living, and forbids you to visit your loved ones – all in the name of “saving lives” – can make use of the same rationale to restrict a woman’s right to choose.

Imagine the following scenario in a post-COVID world. One of the red states brings a challenge to Roe v. Wade before the Supreme Court and argues as follows: the ruling in that case unlawfully restricts the exercise of the state’s legitimate power to infringe upon civil liberties to save lives – a power we have now ceded without objection.

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