Covid-19, Part XIII

[Bob Sheed]

We control the sale of alcohol and ban the sale of many other drugs. We ban the sale of many drugs without a prescription. We ban all sorts of stuff, quite successfully. We stop things all the time, quite successfully. It is delicate to know what to stop and what not to stop, but we are rational, intelligent beings. We make rational disticintions all the time.

If you believe it is essential to educate people, then you should understand the importance of stopping the spread of lies. How can we educate anyone, when they are being fed known lies that harm them? Eliminating the lies should go hand and hand with education.

I'm so tired of the "that's a slippery slope" assertation being misused whenever someone else points out potential consequences down the road. You know what? Many times it actually is a slippery slope. Actions. have. consequences. Many of which can grow exponentially.

If I roll a small snowball down a hill and it grows 100 times its size by the time it reaches the bottom, that's not a slippery slope falacy. That's a slippery slope!

And here is something else. Many times a lie turns out to be the truth.

July 2020: "Fauci is lying!"
July 2021 (leaked emails): Oh wow. He actually was lying about quite a few things.

No offense, and totally off topic, but I recommend that you practice a few mental exercises that work the part of your brain that thinks a few moves ahead about things. Chess is pretty good for that. Because your short-sightedness here, and on quite a few other topics, is staggering. Seriously.

It's like the guy who wants to kill all of the mosquitos because they are annoying and they spread disease. Or the guy who thinks "if you aren't doing anything wrong, then you should have nothing to hide."

Consequences aren't always tit for tat. And again, many times they roll down the slippery slope, growing exponentially.

It's one thing to be wrong. That's fine. But your kind of wrong here is historically (and currently) a REALLY dangerous way of thinking. Over, and over again.

I'll end with this: How can people be educated about what is "wrong" when it is censored before given the chance to be heard?