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Oh, that piece he did 'apologising' was so bad. He clearly had nothing but contempt for the whole idea, and his 'excuse' that he had to travel halfway across the country with his family, while his wife was sick with Covid, was that they needed the grandparents to look after the kids while she was sick.
What, you can't manage to look after your kids yourself, Dominic? Or hire nannies/au pairs/agency staff to do so?
This at a time when ordinary people can't leave their houses, can't visit their sick grannies, are told that if they do anything at all they will be responsible for spreading a deadly plague - and then this guy breaks rules with gay abandon because hey, rules are for the little people.
Correct, rules are for little people. The modern rejection of this idea has lead to the "little people" suffering the most...
In a sense, sure. The benefit of rules is most easily and obviously observable with "little people", people with less margin to burn. "Big" people can flaunt rules longer and harder without suffering obvious consequences.
Only, can you actually get "little people" to follow rules that "big people" won't abide by? I think the evidence pretty clearly shows that you cannot. "Rules are for the little people", in the colloquial sense, results in everyone worse off.
Humans are a monkey see, monkey do animal. Big people, especially those in positions where they are likely to be seen frequently by little people, need to have a sense of noblesse oblige and make sure they follow the rules so that the little people can imitate them. Indeed I think this loss of noblesse oblige in the west is directly hurting the little people right now.
It's basically a form of charity from the people at the top towards those at the bottom if you ask me (instead of giving them money the people at the top are are giving them direction). Big people should be strongly encouraged to follow the rules just like how little people are, but not for the same reasons, and when they don't follow the rules the charge against them should not be "you broke the rules" but rather "you set a bad example for everyone else" and if anything the punishment for this should be more severe than the punishment for "merely" breaking the rules.
What isn't good is pretending big people and little people are the same, which is what the West is doing at the moment in its mass collective delusion.
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Ironically your continued presence, and it's deleterious effect on the Sub would seem to support this claim.
@ZorbaTHut, @TracingWoodgrains, Et Al. Perhaps you'd like to offer a rebuttal?
Inasmuch as I have a rebuttal, it's that I would strongly prefer not being pinged into old feuds you choose to dredge up out of context, particularly given that you've also indicated my continued presence here is undesirable. Leave me out of your fights, please.
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I wrote a whole thing about debate forums which value free expression and what I think would be deleterious to them, but I hit some link just above my keyboard and lost it all. So I will just say that I don't care if you are right, you should delete this post.
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