Or at least that's the feeling you're left with after reading this article that talks about a bad strain of tuberculosis that's running through South Africa, with a 98% mortality rate among those affected.
Interesting that the real thrust of the article is around the question of whether or not you're violating someone's human rights by forcibly detaining and isolating them if they have such a highly contagious disease. This would seem to be an example of where society has really taken a wrong turn: anyone who thinks their rights are so important that killing everyone on the planet is an acceptable outcome of the support of those rights is.. well, pretty common, these days, I guess! After all, that's the same mentality, just boiled down, that allows people to contribute to global warming every day in pursuit of their inalienable right to drive their kids to soccer practice half a mile from their house!
(And credit where credit is due: I saw the above link on Warren Ellis' blog.)
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