“It certainly doesn’t appear as if concern for others might.”
If you are worried about your health you should take steps to safeguard it. You don’t have any right to demand that others circumscribe their lives and activities and economic wellbeing for you, ESPECIALLY to the point of destruction. PC always comes wrapoed in some fake, made up, pumped up moral absolute like this.
If you are worried about your health you should take steps to safeguard it. You don’t have any right to demand that others circumscribe their lives and activities and economic wellbeing for you, ESPECIALLY to the point of destruction. PC always comes wrapoed in some fake, made up, pumped up moral absolute like this.
I have every right to expect that the State's reasonable rules and regulations in response to a pandemic be respected by all, regardless of their religious faith (or lack of it).
We know the importance of social distancing from Pandemics 101. (Society has been down this road before.) I'm sure that there are no small number of safeguards built into Jewish practices and customs that allow for the practice of the most common-sense creed: "Don't be stupid."
There are FIFTY people who are infected with connections to the attorney in Westchester who commuted to work in NYC; these are friends, family, neighbors, and fellow worshipers in his synagogue. www.cnn.com
(To be clear, I am not pointing the finger at the Westchester attorney; I have no idea what he knew or didn't know when he went to the synagogue or about his business.)
Knowing what we know about the potential for any individual to infect a complete stranger (with the possibility of deadly repercussions), then nobody has any business ignoring a reasonable directive from the civil authorities to avoid these gatherings.