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Originally Posted by Yoho
No that’s your story of work and sacrifice during pandemic. Other people were let go from there jobs and ostracized from society for choosing to not take an experimental “vaccine” which increasingly looks like it was the smart choice.
You have little sympathy for them because the tv told you to take it and if you have to take it everyone else does, therefore they deserve every bit of retribution they get.
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Life is all about risk. On one hand taking the vaccine and potentially having an adverse reaction is a risk. On the other, not taking the vaccine and potentially losing your job is another risk. That's what's so great about liberal democracies like Canada - you have the freedom to choose. But you need to be willing to accept the consequences of your choices.
Throughout my life, I've heard conservatives talk about the importance of
personal responsibility. The idea that we all need to be accountable for ourselves and accept the consequences of our actions without blaming others for our own life choices. In this way, choosing to not get the vaccine when you knew it could risk your job was an exercise in the conservative values of: freedom of choice and personal responsibility. You had the choice to get the vaccine or not but you had to be willing to live with the consequences of your choice.
I sympathize with (but do not understand the logic of) those who consider the vaccines to be 'experimental' or unsafe. But at the end of the day, they were presented with the freedom to choose a path forward for themselves, and now need to accept personal responsibility for their actions.
Yoho, as someone who clearly supports the conservative movement in Canada, I'd think you'd fully support the notion of personal responsibility. I mean the idea that people should be held responsible for the consequences of their own choices is a fundamental concept of Western societies and one of the key attributes of individualism and conservativism.
Lots of people in our society lose their jobs due to choices or employer demands that the employee is not willing to accept. As well, many people in our society feel ostracized for their life choices. This is not unique among those who refused the vaccines.
Growing up, my Dad was forced to move several times for his job. We spent time, in Calgary, Edmonton (E=NG), Ottawa, Regina and even England. I moved 5 times between grades 1 and 12. These were not moves that my Dad sought out, and they were not even necessarily promotions for him. My Dad was presented with the option to accept the moves and keep his job or quit and find other work.
The point is, my Dad didn't go online and whine about how hard done he was. He made his choice (freedom) and accepted the consequences of that choice (personal responsibility). In reality, he hated the moves and hated his employer for forcing it on him. But it is what it is, and life moves on.
Tons of people in our society do the same everyday over all types of issues, and they all move on with life as well. I'd suggest the unvaccinated accept that they were presented with a choice and now need to take personal responsibility for that choice. That's what someone who holds true conservative values would say anyways.