The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #167504   Message #4134111
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Jan-22 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
But you were talking about YOUR rights. I was talking about MY responsibility to respect your rights (in areas beyond sensible laws, such as my not sneezing over you or contaminating a supermarket trolley that you may unwittingly use). It's innate in me and millions of others to respect your rights in those ways, but millions of other people don't give a damn. It's those whose better nature we need to be appealing to.

Of course I don't think that anyone has any right to cause you harm, let alone the absolute right. However, if I don't wear a mask in Morrisons tomorrow, not by any stretch of the imagination could it be said that I'm setting out to exercise my absolute right to harm anyone. I'm jabbed and tested to the hilt and I always strive to keep my distance and I always sanitise my hands, hardly the actions of a bloke out to cause harm. It's eminently possible for me to harm someone within the crazy layout which is Bude Morrisons car park by driving into them. But by using the car park it can hardly be said that I'm exercising my absolute right to harm someone. By declining my mask and using the car park I'm simply going about ordinary life, and I have to accept, as do the people I encounter, the rough and tumble that that entails, just as we've always done. Anyway, my mask is always in my pocket, so I'll see.