Agree or disagree?
”Liberty is limited when the exercise of my liberty affects others.”
“The liberty secured by the Constitution of the United States to every person within its jurisdiction does not import an absolute right in each person to be, at all times and in all circumstances, wholly freed from restraint. There are manifold restraints to which every person is necessarily subject for the common good. On any other basis organized society could not exist with safety to its members. Society based on the rule that each one is a law unto himself would soon be confronted with disorder and anarchy. Real liberty for all could not exist under the operation of a principle which recognizes the right of each individual person to use his own, whether in respect of his person or his property, regardless of the injury that may be done to others.”
there is nothing here to disagree with. Most people understand this intuitively. But some people take this further to think that
not doing something affects the liberty of others by the same token, and that would be a misinterpretation of what's being posited here.
Not getting a vaccination might be seen as endangering others, and therefor an exercise of liberty that limits the liberty of others. But the person declining vaccination is not by his inaction imposing the danger of a loss of liberty, the danger is coming from elsewhere. The vaccine-refuser is therefor not depriving anyone of any liberty.
Suppose though, that a man who refused the vaccination gets the disease and then possibly passes it on to someone who subsequently passes away because of it. Is that man now guilty of depriving the deceased of his liberty? Not at all. The vaccine-refuser is not required by the above to allow the liberty of others to impose on his own exercise of liberty...he is only required to not
impose his liberty on others in such a way that their liberty is diminished.
Then suppose a man drives his car to a bridge to do a little fishing and parks it crosswise the bridge such that traffic can not pass. He refuses to move the vehicle. One could say that his exercise of liberty in parking his car that way infringes on the liberty of others to use the bridge, and that would be a fair assessment and a good example of what is being posited above. And then one might also say that his refusal to move the vehicle was an example of
not doing something that affected the liberty of others, and that too would be a fair assessment; but only because in moving the car he would be undoing his own previous liberty-depriving imposition.
If on the other hand a passerby refused to move the vehicle, he could not reasonably be accused of exercising his liberty in a way that interfered with the liberty of others. He didn't create the liberty-depriving situation, and he has no obligation to correct it.