1000Daisies said...
Lymie24 said...
For others who are not abiding by lockdown orders; this is a unique case where I think those people should absolutely be shamed. This is not a 'freedom" issue. This selfish behavior leads to negative health and economy consequences that affects the entire society.
Shaming is never an effective form of conflict resolution.In most situations, I agree. In this situation? I disagree. I live the U.S. southeast. It can not be denied that many people in my region are of the conservative and religious persuasion. Now of course there is nothing wrong with that! However, a sizable percentage, not all or even the majority, of that persuasion are anti-scientific, anti-intellectual, and have a major distrust in government. These people can not be reasoned with. You could not use logic and science to make them see the reality. In that situation, I think shaming is an effective strategy. It's better than turning into a police state IMO. Lesser of two evils.
This might be a good example. Maybe not? We'll see.
Say we all lived in small tribe of 10 people. Every night there was only enough food for the exact 10 of us. We all ate in turns. #1 always at first. #2 always ate second an so forth. Every night #9 eats member eats two servings and #10 goes hungry. This goes on for several nights. The rest of the tribe tries to reason with the one individual. They appeal to their empathy. They appeal to their intelligence. None of it works. In that case, I think it would more a fair judgement to march that individual in front of the the entire group and shame them. It wasn't the first choice. However, when a situation is literally life and death we have to think outside the box.
I know it's super counter-intuitive to think that one of the most basic biological needs we have as humans, human connection, is a life or death situation, but right now it
potentially is. I have no sympathy for those people right now that can't be reasoned with. There is an overload of information out for everybody to see why physical distancing is important right now. When lives are at stake ignorance and defiance are not an excuse.
When this first started going down 3-4 weeks ago I had no qualms about
calling my younger brother that was still living with my parents and ask him to stop going to the gym politely. I tried to explain as best as I could the current evidence of the disease, who was most vulnerable, how contagious it might be etc. My parents are both of the age range of the vulnerable, and my dad has RA, heart disease, High BP, Obesity, aortic anuresym. He probably wouldn't make it if he gets it. When my brother refused my request and said " I would rather die than not go to the gym" I had no problem calling him out as selfish. Was that harsh? Sure. Do I think it was necessary? Yes. I would do it again. There was no time to tolerate ignorance and selfishness. That's just my opinion. I realize opinions vary.