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Canadasceptic's avatar

Whatever we label them will seem harsh to some. Would non-critical thinkers be better? Order followers? Even if we called them misguided souls it would still sound patronizing. You can't put lipstick on this pig.

We can't wish away the divide and, I would argue, we didn't cause it. While I hate masks with a passion and would die before taking the injection, I respect everyone's right to be ignorant and wear a mask alone outside and take that tenth booster. The sheep needn't become shrews; all we ask is that they leave us the hell alone.

Labels are a fact of reality and we humans need them in order to make distinctions. Post-modernism messes with language to such an extent that people can no longer distinguish good from evil, right from wrong, and even male from female (non-binary anyone?). I'd argue there is a danger is NOT accurately labeling things and people -- like "minor attracted persons" instead of pedophiles. Sheep are sheep and if the shoe fits...

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I suppose the critics take issue with lessons in Orwell's Animal Farm?

Or cautions about wolves in sheep clothing?

The critics are just as arrogant and condescending as those in power who think everyone else is stupid and needs to be shielded from harm.

Discernment. God gave us all the gift of discernment. Take the word, 'herd.' As in 'herd immunity.' Protection, safety in large numbers from predators. Or 'herd.' As in 'don't follow the herd off a cliff.' Protection, from a herd that's been spooked into harming itself. We get to discern which type of herd will protect us and which will harm us. Or flock.

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