Mutual Self-Restraint: Social Distancing and COVID-19 in Japan

by Laura Specker Sullivan, Ph.D. and Dan Rosen, J.D. As Fairchild et al. describe in a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, the American debate on social distancing regulations has pitted those protesting unacceptable state limitations on individual rights versus those demanding that individual rights to protection create a government obligation. That the debate over social distancing in the United States is playing out in the space of rights is not surprising; as commentators have noted, recent American social and political discourse is grounded in a tradition of individualism that frequently finds itself at odds with the common good.…
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