A beautiful example of the barren stupidity of libertarian politics. ‘Personal responsibility’ on the roads…

A beautiful example of the barren stupidity of libertarian politics. ‘Personal responsibility’ on the roads leads to gridlock. But if every individual driver drives slower via a collective speed limit, everybody drives faster. /1 #covid19aus #auspol https://t.co/BaS7RAO6N3

Covid protections, public health measures, are speed limits on the virus. They appear to slow us down individually, but the alternative of personal responsibility leads to virus traffic jams - gridlock, where nobody moves at all, not individually or collectively. /2

I Tweet a lot about how we can’t understand society by opposing individual and collective. Here’s an empirical example of why. Collective and individual freedom are the same freedom, they’re not opposed. The more we act collectively, the more individual freedom we have too. /end