Ideal # 2: Everyone has a right to safe and sanitary living conditions Questions (focusing on ‘safety’ only):

  1. Re-wording ‘safety’ as protection from danger, what types of dangers should we be protected from?
  2. What types of dangers should be tolerated?
  3. How much danger should be tolerated within each category of danger?
  4. Should more vulnerable individuals have greater protections For instance, children or mentally ill persons?
  5. What at are the principles involved in affording vulnerable individuals greater protections?
  6. At what point in the vulnerability continuum does a person no longer qualify for extra protection? Why there?
  7. Where does choice enter the equation of dangers everyone should have the right to be protected from? For instance, should people be physically prevented from exercising their choice to enter a dangerous area, say, an abandoned building with rotting floors?
  8. What would be reasonable measures to physically prevent a person from acting on their choices to endanger themselves?
  9. What would be sufficient warning of danger? What physical barriers would be sufficient? What makes something sufficient?
  10. How much probability of harm is needed to label something as unsafe?

Well, it’s a beginning. As always, the devil’s in the details.