The antivaxxers and their ilk protesting don’t need an audience, they need lessons.
Human rights are a construct of a functioning democracy, where we all agree on fundamentals, such as the rule of law and certain obligations to society, such as parenting one’s offspring.
Civilisation is not the natural state of man and many civilisations have failed. Sadly, educationalists in NZ have set our young on a path to irrelevance on a bandwagon called decolonisation.
You cannot reason people out of a belief they have not reasoned themselves into. Those using their children as human shields, “dismissing” a husband because he had a booster and swearing the PM’s jab did not contain the vaccine, will change their minds only when gasping for breath in hospital.
Early in the pandemic we heard a lot about Sweden and Plan B. Didn’t hear much about the authorities in Lund dumping a tonne of chicken poop on central park to stop people congregating but that was to celebrate not protest, and protesting is a “right”.
I do not protest against actually driving on the left – I usually drive on the left – but I am against mandates (ha ha). In France I have the freedom to drive on the right, so I do. Everybody’s happy.
Dennis Horne. Howick
