Interesting questions! Not sure I can answer definitively to either one except to say "it depends." I never thought I'd be the type of person to directly disobey government mandates that are imposed for the sake of safety, yet here I am.
Perhaps think of a future situation as a gradation of choices rather than "either-or". That latter viewpoint, the binary, is pushed hard on us every day in modern society. If the binary of choices are either to comply or to disobey, then what options could we find in the middle, to either side of the binary, or a third choice that opposes the binary altogether.
Many people probably took the middle road, being a mixture of compliance and disobedience (like me).
Others have taken their health into their own hands, either by enforcing their own private mandates (must be vaxxed to visit, always wear masks, etc.) while others have completely sworn off conventional medicine.
Others still might find ways to avoid the system and government as much as possible, minimizing the need to engage with any of it to begin with.
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Re: When would you comply?
Date: 2024-02-27 05:40 pm (UTC)Interesting questions! Not sure I can answer definitively to either one except to say "it depends." I never thought I'd be the type of person to directly disobey government mandates that are imposed for the sake of safety, yet here I am.
Perhaps think of a future situation as a gradation of choices rather than "either-or". That latter viewpoint, the binary, is pushed hard on us every day in modern society. If the binary of choices are either to comply or to disobey, then what options could we find in the middle, to either side of the binary, or a third choice that opposes the binary altogether.
Many people probably took the middle road, being a mixture of compliance and disobedience (like me).
Others have taken their health into their own hands, either by enforcing their own private mandates (must be vaxxed to visit, always wear masks, etc.) while others have completely sworn off conventional medicine.
Others still might find ways to avoid the system and government as much as possible, minimizing the need to engage with any of it to begin with.
My two (three?) cents.
Tim PW