Troubadour wrote: ↑03 Jul 2022, 17:03
Del wrote: ↑03 Jul 2022, 16:54
Biff wrote: ↑03 Jul 2022, 15:10
Thus we should mock them all the more!
I mock them when I can. "Poke them in their dogmas," as Jordan Peterson says.
Mostly I just ignore them. You know.... walk into the store without a mask (ignoring the sign on the door). If somebody cares enough to tell me that I have to put on a mask, then I will decide how much I really want to be in that store. Most people like being ignored in this way, as they don't care about the sign on the door either.
Not really feeling that obviously. Don't see it as any different than a "no shoes, no shirt, no service" rule that a private establishment might have.
Who's dogma is it that people have to wear clothes when they go to a restaurant or the supermarket? Or take a vow of celibacy? Or anything at all...
You are conflating a few dissimilar things.
"No shirt, no shoes, no service" is a
societal norm. We all want that, for obvious reasons. We need to post the rule because teenagers are always still learning how to normal.
"Mask Required" was a
government mandate that long out-lived its useful purpose to society. Every store had to post it, even in neighborhoods that weren't full of hypochondriacs. Most neighborhoods ignored it. I made a decision to shop in those neighborhoods.
A vow of celibacy or marriage, sobriety or veganism or whatever is always a
personal choice. No one compels anyone to take such a vow. People make vows so they can choose their own life-path, necessarily rejecting other life-paths. Choosing a path is the only way to move forward, and we count this as part of growing up.
The
Natural Law is a solid reality... Good is good, evil is evil, and this is the same for every person and every society in every age. Personal choices, societal norms and government mandates may be in accord with natural law, or opposed to natural law, or simply resting within the fashions of human freedom
(for example, it doesn't matter whether we drive on the right side or the left side, so long as we all agree to avoid collisions).
The abortion lobby wants us to think that abortion is a personal choice. They want government mandates to affirm this.
But the reality remains: It is a violation of natural human behavior for a mother to kill her own child. Such a society cannot survive for long.
