Well I mean that's the fatal flaw of this and OP's argument. You're right; you're absolutely right, but being right doesn't matter.
People are emotionally broken by a year and a half of being cooped up by pandemic protocol. Of course they're going to throw off their masks the second someone says it may possibly be kind of ok in certain circumstances in certain areas. Expecting people en masse to do otherwise, even leftists, is idealistic.
Like I understand the frustration, truly I do. But what does shouting into a digital void "you're all irresponsible idiots except me" accomplish? It's grandstanding. Cathartic maybe, but not helpful.
It's a question of what can be done, isn't it? If explaining - correctly - that the CDC's decisions are short-sighted and economically motivated is what you want to do, great. But painting yourself as a tortured Cassandra for the whole country, and lashing out at people making individual decisions based on their own specific circumstances, is liberalism.
What else would you call individualizing a problem that can only be solved by state appartuses over which the people currently have no means of control?
Individual decisions are complete and utter bullshit though, there are necessities and freedom of will, the more you know - the less choice you have actually. Here there is no choice for a leftist, but to wear a mask, as an informed person. All the rest is people rejecting that information for their convenience.
Here there is no choice for a leftist, but to wear a mask, as an informed person
But this is still describing the world as you want it to be, not as it is.
Leftists are just as capable of moral imperfection as anyone else. Many will wear masks out of a sense of solidarity and moral duty, and that's great! But many will also choose not to wear a mask becuase there is no personal consequence for that decision. Until those consequences exist, getting mad about it is just stewing. It goes nowhere, it does nothing.
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Well I mean that's the fatal flaw of this and OP's argument. You're right; you're absolutely right, but being right doesn't matter.
People are emotionally broken by a year and a half of being cooped up by pandemic protocol. Of course they're going to throw off their masks the second someone says it may possibly be kind of ok in certain circumstances in certain areas. Expecting people en masse to do otherwise, even leftists, is idealistic.
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Like I understand the frustration, truly I do. But what does shouting into a digital void "you're all irresponsible idiots except me" accomplish? It's grandstanding. Cathartic maybe, but not helpful.
Hopefully, it accomplishes shaming the idiots in question.
If that's the goal, then fair enough.
It's a question of what can be done, isn't it? If explaining - correctly - that the CDC's decisions are short-sighted and economically motivated is what you want to do, great. But painting yourself as a tortured Cassandra for the whole country, and lashing out at people making individual decisions based on their own specific circumstances, is liberalism.
What else would you call individualizing a problem that can only be solved by state appartuses over which the people currently have no means of control?
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Individual decisions are complete and utter bullshit though, there are necessities and freedom of will, the more you know - the less choice you have actually. Here there is no choice for a leftist, but to wear a mask, as an informed person. All the rest is people rejecting that information for their convenience.
But this is still describing the world as you want it to be, not as it is.
Leftists are just as capable of moral imperfection as anyone else. Many will wear masks out of a sense of solidarity and moral duty, and that's great! But many will also choose not to wear a mask becuase there is no personal consequence for that decision. Until those consequences exist, getting mad about it is just stewing. It goes nowhere, it does nothing.
Well, yeah, that means they’ve chosen actually between two things - and I judge them for that decision.
Fair enough, I suppose.
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