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Moral Question; Quarantine
Topic Started: Oct 5 2005, 06:55 PM (87 Views)
corky52
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Do you feel that quarantining people and forcing them to stay in an unsafe area is the equivalent of murder?
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Fr. Mike
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The circumstance would determine my answer to that question Corky.
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corky52
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SB,
how can forcing a person to stay and die ever be moral? Practical maybe, but moral?
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
What if they were known terrorists.

Besides we do this in a gas chamber quite often.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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Fr. Mike
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Corky,

My Grandmother came down with small pox as a young woman with children. She along with others were required by law to be quaranteened. She nearly died and suffered the rest of her life from some complications related to the disease.

I believe she should have been quaranteened [did I spell that right?]

If allowed to roam around, others could have been exposed and died as a result.

Obviously your question must involve some recent event that I'm not aware of. Please fill in the details.
A humble servant of the Lord Jesus Christ

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The unborn have rights too.
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corky52
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SB,
Like I said practical.
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ImaHeadaU
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To be quarantined is not a death sentence. Some may die and other will not. For a person in a pandemic flu area to flee to another area potentially risks infecting far more innocent people. Perhaps the person who flees should be charged with manslaughter for the deaths that result? Just a question.
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corky52
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Other side of the same coin? Would a person deciding to stay and possibly die in go to hell for suicide? If you have the option to leave and live, is staying in the face of certain death a sin?
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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Soldiers in a war.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
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buffy
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Or we could just wander around and have a plague like in Europe that about wiped
it out...hello???

It's not so much an issue of morality as an issue of common sense....No i probably wouldnt like it, but I would understand it..

Fannie Crosby, the Blind Hymn writer was quarantined for small pox during her
life time; out of that came some wonderful hymns..Blessed Assurance being one of them...

Life is tough and full of tough choices; sometimes you have to do what is right
amid overwhelming criticism.

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John - Gainesville, FL
As to the original question, no. Quarantines are usually imposed to save lives, not cost them. I think the more interesting question, posed by ImaHeadaU, is leaving a quarantined area not knowing for sure that you are not infected the equivalent of murder? Iirc, people with aids that intentionally infected others were charged wth a crime. The flu, to which I think this all aludes, is a fast killer, where aids is slow. No real difference as to the outcome.
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