Really Good reasons as to why countries should enforce quarantine laws to stop ebola?
The question is whether such laws will actually stop ebola at the border. Just because you stop flights, doesn't mean you can stop all traffic in or out.
Question about the federal government and creating laws?
Consider the “tea party” movement. Do you believe that the federal government should be able to create whatever laws it deems to be in the country’s best interests, or do you believe that individual states, like Florida and California, should have more control over the laws within their own borders?
What would an ideal Libertarian response to the Ebola outbreak be?
My take on Libertarian ideology is that it's the end point of a spectrum where believers think that human beings (as individuals or among their families) are the best deciders of what's good for them and will spontaneously self-organize to generate the best outcomes when the issue at hand requires some kind of cooperation. The opposite end of that spectrum is Marxism, which holds that people fall into destructive social structures that are oppressive to all without a communist party avant guard that can arrange society in such a way that people become better. In a way, Libertarians have a very positive view of human nature; Marxists have a positive view of the potential for human beings, but are quite negative about how people actually act in the historical moment.Most political systems, and my own beliefs, are somewhere in between on this scale.But with the Ebola epidemic, you have a bit of a test. If you go very far from Conakry in Guinea, you go beyond the reach of government. The northern villages where Ebola got started are quite poor and uneducated, but they are not saddled with coercive government structures that disincentivize people or prevent them from spontaneously self organizing to generate good outcomes.Didn't work out so well.
Why are Ebola protocols different for civilians than the military?
You'd think they'd be the same, wouldn't you? I can only speculate but probably this is due to lack of coordination among the dozens of government agencies by now involved in the Ebola response. So far at least the Obama Administration hasn't managed to putll itself together and formulate a coherent policy. This is really more of a public-relations problem than a medical one, since the risk of an Ebola epidemic here in the US is very small. But unfortunately the federal government has convinced people that it doesn’t really know what it’s doing, which has only increased their uncertainty and fear—one symptom of which is this uproar over quarantine procedures.
Economic productivity has declined in some countries as a result of:?
Productivity usually refers to the per capita production rate. By that standard, the answer is none of the above. If you are asking which disease has caused major declines in total economic production (not productivity per person), the answer is clearly bubonic plague - killing off 25-30% or the population will have great impact on total economic production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequence... On the other hand, the evidence suggests that Europe was overpopulated at the time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_de... so after the deaths; the people left didn't have to farm the marginal land, they could farm the best land. Thus their individual productivity went up.
Why African countries are not more developed when black people are such intelligent and talented people?
I'm not trying to patronize, but I honestly feel that they are very talented people - sports, music, you name it, and the black people I know are very intelligent.