Anonymous ID: 9ddc9b Jan. 28, 2022, 12:15 p.m. No.15485138   🗄️.is 🔗kun

I found this article while scrolling through the Twitter feed of the Truck Convoy. It's long, but I think that some of the points he makes are good to bring up when talking to vax mandate people. This is not an endorsement of the Nova Scotia Civil Liberties Association (NSCLA) - I just read this one piece and haven't researched them at all.

 

The Ugly Business of Scapegoating the Unvaccinated

https://nscla.org/news/the-ugly-business-of-scapegoating-the-unvaccinated/

 

Conclusion

I have taken a long time to say something very simple. Look carefully enough, and we will all see our own role in the ills that plague society. Corona is the tip of the iceberg, or perhaps it’s better compared to a mirror. Mirrors are especially useful for studying yourself – they make it easier to see the log in our own eye, and draw our attention away from shining a spotlight on the speck in our neighbour’s.

 

To win back the trust that has made one of Canada the great places to live in the world, we need to give up the scapegoating and return to the work of forgiveness, the truth and reconciliation that has made us the good, if flawed, country that we are.

 

Scapegoating always ends in vengeance and violence. Only forgiveness can give us the peace we all so desperately seek to make our best laid plans, and forgiveness is only possible when it is freely offered. “The right thing to do” is, and can only ever be, a free choice. It cannot be dictated over Zoom from a cottage in the wilderness.

 

The right thing to do is to forgive those who make choices we disagree with, assume the goodness lying behind their intentions unless given compelling reason to believe otherwise, and do our utmost not to ruin the trust on which free institutions are built, including our healthcare system. Persuasion, not coercion, should guide us.

 

I acknowledge this is a disappointing philosophy for those who are sure they know what the right thing to do is. But in complex circumstances, when good people find themselves in disagreement, the only other kind of philosophy possible takes us to much darker places than a virus ever could.