RE: Anti-vaxx Protest at the Hospitals in Canada misguided
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There is not much gain in people from the people calling each other names and accusing each other of lacking respect. But it does show a conflict that is undeniably there. The fact that there are different views and individual decisions on the issue is a sign that can be seen as positive. Do you think that there would ever be unanimity among all on issues of such a crucial nature? It is quite normal that something like this happens. At no time in human history has there been such a thing as ONE view, ONE nation, ONE solution to the problems one wants to address. This is a reality that is quite easy to understand, isn't it?
But if one demands that it should be the same: Everyone should think, feel, decide exactly the same, you are asking for a utopia or a dystopia, depending on how you look at it.
Hey, thanks for the comment. Sure I agree, name-calling is not something that gets anyone anywhere... but at some point, as a society and community, we have to congeal and get to societal norms where we all start to follow the unwritten rules, attitudes and behaviours. That's not happening here. These demonstrations should be allowed to happen but there's a place that these demonstrations should occur. In front of hospitals is NOT the place AND under the auspices of supporting the health workers, which is not true. We're all calling it out. These people are tone-deaf. And now, they are planning more protests IN FRONT OF hospitals, again. Take it to the government offices. Unbelievable.
You think such things will succeed? I am not only sceptical about its feasibility (I think it is impossible to impose the same rules on all people), but I find it not very desirable and downright unsuccessful where it has been forced to be imposed at all costs.
Why not? It's a good place because the demonstrators are bothering there. That's the nature of a demo, that it should disturb people. Otherwise there would be no point in demonstrating. I am always annoyed when demos cause traffic jams, are held "in the middle of town" but if this would not be the case, I would not notice them, be not disturbed and they would be without an effect.
While this may be untrue for one part of the workers, those who are alright with the rules, it is true for the others, who disagree with them. Nobody can speak for the whole group of workers and make a homogen crowd out of them. That would be unclean.
Can you agree that this is reality, that people are not like legos or clones, all having the same notions but different ones? Can you further see something positive in it?