Just a very quick post to update something. Back in May I posted about masks, making the argument that in a free society the force of law should always be used only as a last resort. I even made a little list of avenues we should go down before we reach that point. Writing;
Normally in a free society we only force people to do things like this as an absolute last resort, and even then we should ideally only do it for the minimum amount of time and with the maximum amount of oversight. That's definitely not the case at the moment though.
In a free society there are a number of avenues we can exhaust before we even begin to think about going down the compulsion route. If we want another person to do something that they don't want to do we can:
- ask them - politely ideally :)
- try to persuade them, with appeals to emotion or reason
- give them incentives
- pay them outright
Anyway, I missed something off that list, and that's simply the practice of making something easier for people. For example, giving people free masks would make it easier for them to wear one. So I thought I'd add it to the list in case I come back to this later.
- ask them - politely ideally :)
- try to persuade them, with appeals to emotion or reason
- make it easier for them
- give them incentives
- pay them outright
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