The Partisan Divide on Issues

[Bob Butler 54]

(10-17-2021, 10:25 AM)taramarie Wrote: I have nothing to say to people who are ok with removal of freedoms. I should be allowed to go to a grocery store and go back to my country of origin vaccine or not. You guys are no better than those who allowed blacks to have less freedoms.

You can do what is better for the culture, or what is better for the individual.  Regeneracies are generally selfish times.  Individual ights often triumph over the culture.  Crises are times when a major issue or two threatens the old perceptions of how things had to be.  Collective or group goals are more apt to triumph.  The individual sacrifice for the sake of the culture.

In the US, the elite and racists got their way during the unravelling.  Come the crisis, Covid, the alleged tax on the rich and the Floyd protest brought the collective good more into play.  As a believer in cyclical theory, I can quite believe in the conflicting approaches taking turns having their time.

On vaccines, the US Supreme Court put the health of the country ahead of private rights.  In the time of smallpox and polio, there was no doubt this was the way it had to be.  Recently advances is medicine have made us forget what used to be held commonly necessary for the culture as a whole.  Medical rights to control treatment have been invented which counter necessary practices.  As Spock said, the good of the many outweigh the benefits to a few.

I don't mind backwards looking individuals putting themselves at risk, but they put the general public at risk as well.