10-19-2021, 01:14 AM
(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.
In general the more dense the population the more rigid must be the social organization. I live a short distance from a place in which nobody cares if a dog someone walks defecates. Such a place (a ditch next to a grain field) is within walking distance from me. In the neighborhood in which I live I am expected to pick up and remove the droppings.
One can park one's car practically anywhere one wants when one is in a forest or a farming area. Of course there isn't much to walk to in such places. But in New York City, practically all parking has a price tag attached and is free only if one does so to make a lucrative transaction with a merchant or does so on official duty. Spitting on a street in Singapore will get you a severe fine. Doing so in the ditch that a dog can defecate in the presence of its owner without impunity is just one of those things.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.