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To inform on anyone for "pandemic" violations is not what respectable people do. If we're being honest, these new rules are merely a novel way to bludgeon one's enemies, receive brownie points, etc. Business as usual. I agree about this tendency being a double-edged sword--I can see it has its advantages--but, ultimately, who wants to live in a society operating out of groupthink? We're all becoming turncoats, subservient to the political and social mores of our "betters," and this makes us shitty at innovating, shitty at problem-solving, shitty at developing and maintaining compassion... Tattling about, ratting out, finking on, or tipping off anyone is not my idea of a healthy community. It's an extension of a community under "lockdown" where everyone is seen as some kind of inherent danger. Not a community at all, but a rat's nest, a hive, a den of thieves.
To inform on anyone for "pandemic" violations is not what respectable people do.
From your perspective yes, certainly
Now you have people, societies, where it's a duty, because they believe that not doing it will endanger the collective, and that's a cardinal sin to allow that to happen, in their culture
That's a fair point. I am wired to be contrary. I don't mind living around a bunch of people that are highly disagreeable so long as there are boundaries, mutual respect, a fair amount of independence, and plenty of humor... but that's not to say that other kinds of societies (China for instance) can't accomplish interesting things because they sacrifice individuality for security, or place some kind of moral imperative on social cohesion.
Yeah exactly, it's a double edged sword, it's two diametrically opposed schools of thoughts (yours and "the other", the collectivist one you are referring to with china) with their pros and cons
While australians are anglos originally, having an anglo-saxon cultural background traditionally favoring individual freedom and personal responsibility, they also have a quasi totalitarian side; they have a reputation of being fucking maniacs when it comes to the control of foreign species on their soil, because in the past and to this day, they got a massive problem with rabbits for instance, it's an ecological disaster
And yeah a virus... You can see how this quasi totalitarian/control freak mindset kicked in, and unfortunately... Wrong move, they fell for it, and now see the result...
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