"If a few thousand people can get together and block half a billion in trade daily and then just get whatever they want, how is that fair for the majority?"
If "what they want" is the restoration of rights of bodily integrity, informed consent and respect for a person's decisions, which have been removed, are they not "wanting" what the majority also wants? And if these are not things the majority wants, why don't they? Or is it that they want these things for themselves, but not for you?
PS. This, by the way, is exactly the same thing that I have said many times to people getting upset about BLM protests, in particular the early one responding to the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri. If "what you want" is the right to due process (ie the right to not be summarily executed for a presumptive crime before you have the opportunity to face your accusers in a court of law and present a defence on your own behalf), are you not "wanting" what the majority also wants? And if these are not the things the majority wants, why don't they? Or is it that they want these things for themselves, but not for you?
One detail that stood out to me during both the Michael Brown protests, and the Freedom Convoy, was the footage of people out on the streets with brooms and garbage bags, cleaning up.
I have no doubt that both protests have also attracted bad actors - in this world there is no shortage, ever, of infiltrators, provocateurs, and entryists with bad agendas.
Nevertheless, from where I stand, it looks to me like both protests attracted large numbers of people, who vastly outnumbered the bad actors, who simply breathed a great sigh of relief at seeing that something important about their own experience of the world, which had received no public airing at all, was finally being SAID.
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If "what they want" is the restoration of rights of bodily integrity, informed consent and respect for a person's decisions, which have been removed, are they not "wanting" what the majority also wants? And if these are not things the majority wants, why don't they? Or is it that they want these things for themselves, but not for you?
PS. This, by the way, is exactly the same thing that I have said many times to people getting upset about BLM protests, in particular the early one responding to the shooting of Michael Brown in Missouri. If "what you want" is the right to due process (ie the right to not be summarily executed for a presumptive crime before you have the opportunity to face your accusers in a court of law and present a defence on your own behalf), are you not "wanting" what the majority also wants? And if these are not the things the majority wants, why don't they? Or is it that they want these things for themselves, but not for you?
One detail that stood out to me during both the Michael Brown protests, and the Freedom Convoy, was the footage of people out on the streets with brooms and garbage bags, cleaning up.
I have no doubt that both protests have also attracted bad actors - in this world there is no shortage, ever, of infiltrators, provocateurs, and entryists with bad agendas.
Nevertheless, from where I stand, it looks to me like both protests attracted large numbers of people, who vastly outnumbered the bad actors, who simply breathed a great sigh of relief at seeing that something important about their own experience of the world, which had received no public airing at all, was finally being SAID.