Laws save us from anarchy
You live in one of the freest countries in the world. If you wish to live in a place where every citizen can set his or her own rules, completely unconcerned about the welfare of your fellow citizens, you’d better find yourself a nice uninhabited island. But before you find an island and start your idiocracy there, I suggest you read George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
There are all sorts of laws constraining our ultimate freedom, which, unless you favour anarchy, most of you probably obey and are in favour of them. We can’t drive at 180 kph on the highways. Most of us who are sane accept that. There’s probably a zoning regulation where you live that I can’t build a toxic waste dump beside your house. I suppose you might see that as egregious government interference into your affairs, but I expect you’d change your mind quickly when I start burning PCBs and Bisphenols next door to you. Similarly, because we’re civilized people — at least some of us — we don’t infect others with whatever disease we might have. Similar examples can be found in abundance.
We have this thing called a “democracy.” Maybe you haven’t heard of it. You vote, and if the party you support loses, you grumble, and wait for another election. Maybe you do some work for that party.
I hated Stephen Harper and his government, but I didn’t go and trash Ottawa and piss on the National War Memorial because of that.
When Trudeau broke his promise to change our electoral system to a proportional representation one I was angry, but I didn’t start sending him death threats. Do you even know what a FPTP vs a PR system is? I thought not.
I’m not a Liberal either, I’ve been a lifelong NDPer. I’ve lived all across Canada, and I’ve hardly ever lived in a riding where my preferred candidate was elected, and of course, have never once seen an NDP federal government. I’ve spent much of my life being unhappy with whichever government was in power. But I don’t go whining to the governor general asking her to remove the elected prime minister, and whatever confused and contradictory demands that were presented in the moronic Memorandum of Understanding. Maybe you don’t understand how the Westminster system of government works.
We live in a country where if you’re sick or injured you can go to a doctor or hospital and you don’t need to take your credit card with you. That’s insanely great, yet you’ve been abusing these amazing health care workers who’ve been stressing out with overtime work and the abuse you’ve been heaping on them. They even try to smile and work non-judgmentally on you when you’re in the hospital and on the point of death because you refused to be vaccinated or wear a mask, and even then, are cursing them.
Your whining about not being able to go to gyms, restaurants, churches, concerts, sporting events, etc., has been SO over the top during the past two years.
We’re tired of you.
Paul Harris
Duncan