OnceFuture comments

First, I hope the suspects get apprehended and that the victims make a quick recovery.

How can one presume to have a property in their own person if the boundaries of this property are so readily breached by a deadly virus?

What a ridiculous postulation. You might as well ask, “How can one presume to own a property when someone can readily attempt to break into it, or natural disasters can ravage it?” Of course things outside ourselves can impact or influence us beyond our own control, but those things are rather fewer than the things we can choose to allow to influence us.

To say that we should abandon our sense of self-ownership just because we can impact each other is preposterous. Of course each person should have the courtesy to exercise caution and safety for themselves and their community; but that courtesy should be born of their own pride, self-respect, and respect for others in their community.

The notion of throwing out the concept of self-ownership flirts dangerously with throwing out accountability of one’s own actions.