The movie Outbreak is frigthening for several reasons. It is not scary because of the possibility and the danger of bioterrorism/infectious disease, but because of the threat of a reactionary government may have on society. When the disease outbreak started to spread, the US military in the movie turned the town into a police state. People were not only disabilated by the threat of disease, but also by the evils of the state.

You could claim this is an emergency and special rules must apply. Similiarly, you could argue that we must stop this disease, we must curfew people's civil liberties temporarly to ensure that people continue to live. That is assuming that is life is precious because god says it is. That logic is flawed as you can not prove that god exists or that life is precious. Both ideas are rooted in ideology and not science.

You could instead argue a perfectly hedonistic alternative that suggests that life exists solely for people to enjoy the maximum amount of responsible freedom possible. People should be free to move as they please, do as they want, guided by their conscience. Alas, people who choose not to be responsible pose a threat and problem to society. Any system of controlling such a system will have the unintentional consquence of limiting others freedoms.

There is two things that are always in peril in modern society. These are our freedom and the environment. All other things are unlimited in nature, we can reproduce and create new humans as neccessary just like we can build new Chevy Silverados. Some people might argue that the loss of freedom is slight compared to the loss of life. But that's not true. Life as previously noted is rather disposable, rather unimportant, compared to freedom. We can feel when we are free and not dominated by the state, but we don't feel anything when we are dead.

Modern bureaucracy and politics often seeks to protect the wrong thing: the body and not the soul. The soul is the bases of our bodies, it is what gives us the ability of rational thought unlike animals. If you ignore the souless nature of animals, it would seem like trapping is a terrible thing. It's painless, but it takes away their freedom for several hours before the trapper comes to kill it. Animals have no soul, they do not understand freedom, so they are different from humans. Protecting freedom should be the first demand of humans, along with property and pursuit of happiness. Llife is at best a secondary concern.