Good governance requires sober consideration of the facts and judicial application of a conservative governing philosophy. Even in private life, sober consideration of facts and a judicial application of one’s own beliefs, is a sane and rational way of living one’s life.
Exasperated by social media, far too often people not only take a knee-jerk response, but become so opposed to any dissent that they will accept more extreme positions they wouldn’t have ever considered before. It is a stupid form of tribalism that traps people into a starkly manichean worldview.
Your humble author had decided to ignore any Corona-chan related “hot takes” back in 2020. However, this does not mean idiocy brought up by, but not directly about Covid, ought to be ignored, but rather it ought to be noted.
Those who are strongly anti-mandate often become at least somewhat anti-vax. Similarly, many who appropriately argue Joe Rogan should not canceled end up arguing his speech hurts nobody. Defenses of freedom often morph into arguments that an exercise of the freedom has no cost. https://t.co/HYNo2PTZMO
— Patterico (@Patterico) February 12, 2022
You’ll see this over and over every time someone defends a cherished freedom. It’s too apparently too uncomfortable to talk about trade-offs these days, so you’ll start to see increasingly absurd attempts to minimize and deny the damage caused by said cherished freedom.
— Patterico (@Patterico) February 12, 2022
Any criticism of someone exercising the cherished freedom in a harmful way is ritualistically denounced as fascism, even if the criticism acknowledges the freedom and the lawfulness of its exercise. We hear: “But people use the same arguments to shut the freedom down!”
— Patterico (@Patterico) February 12, 2022
