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Vaccine passports in the moral maze

Vaccine passports in the moral maze

Should society's benefits be conditional upon our obligations to the public interest?

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Melanie Phillips
Mar 04, 2021
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On BBC Radio’s Moral Maze this week, we discussed yet more moral dilemmas being thrown up by the pandemic. With the British government now floating the idea of vaccine passports, we asked whether the advantages this might bring in opening up society would be countered by a decline in equality and fairness.

Would the easing of restrictions for those who …

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