Mr.Gumby wrote:I read it as baiting, triggering or giving the finger to everybody else. A deliberate disregard of the common good. It's malicious at its core.
Naturally. Everyone knows it, and the offenders don't care.
Mr.Gumby wrote:There are no excuses.
But there is rationalization, and it's even believed, so if there is anything to be called an excuse, that would be it.
I'm in a discussion elsewhere about how defiance of the shutdown plays out, particularly in the US. Non-citizens are baffled at how we could make it political at all, but even for those of us who oppose this development, to a Yank it's really not so surprising, given our popular historical narrative. And politicizing it happens on both sides of the spectrum, now. Telling us to get over it is like telling fish not to swim. I personally think that this is absolutely the wrong time for politicizing something so urgent as a pandemic, but a lot of people are thinking only of themselves. In the end the greatest chunk of the problem, I think, is economic. None of us are untouched in some way by the prospect of not only hard times, but utter economic devastation, and I'm seeing its looming specter all around me. People I know personally, who used to have thriving businesses, may well end up on the street. This is no exaggeration.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician