FYI: Respecting the RIGHT to choose VS Respecting the choice.
Criticising a choice is fair play, stop with the bs ‘we must be respectful’ if someone gets the jab.
If you think a choice is unethical, stupid, dangerous, harmful to society you are not only free to criticise it...
Criticising a choice is fair play, stop with the bs ‘we must be respectful’ if someone gets the jab.
If you think a choice is unethical, stupid, dangerous, harmful to society you are not only free to criticise it...
....but potentially ethically obliged to do so. And that goes for both sides of the argument.
When a friend or acquaintance has made a choice we disagree with we will often choose to let the issue go at that point, that doesn’t mean we suddenly respect it, it means we have...
When a friend or acquaintance has made a choice we disagree with we will often choose to let the issue go at that point, that doesn’t mean we suddenly respect it, it means we have...
...accepted it and see no point in continuing our criticism. We might however not make this same choice to stop criticising when the person is a public figure. This is because we are still ethically obliged to keep attempting to educate the public about a practice we think is...
...harmful & because the public figure has made a public statement if he/she speaks of their choice on a public platform. So please stop telling me that they should not be criticised now that they have made the choice.
I think people mean well when they suggest we should...
I think people mean well when they suggest we should...
...be respectful but I also think they are confusing what I mentioned at the start of this thread. The RIGHT to a choice vs the CHOICE.
I think also this whole culture of words can be violence also contributes to this confusion.
My words do not disrespect your right to choose..
I think also this whole culture of words can be violence also contributes to this confusion.
My words do not disrespect your right to choose..
...unless I am asking for mandates, laws, institutional coercion or physical threats to remove your right to choose.
So no when I criticise a Hitchens or a Dore for having the jab I am not disrespecting their right, I am disrespecting their choice, as is my right & theirs.
So no when I criticise a Hitchens or a Dore for having the jab I am not disrespecting their right, I am disrespecting their choice, as is my right & theirs.
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