No mask tyranny! This is a pro-choice matter. Can’t folks can’t figure out what is “mandatable” and what is not? Apparently not!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seat belts, masks, medicines, menus, neighborhoods, vacation destinations, employment, theater: these are all matters of CHOICE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some things, of course, are not “mandatable”: our parents, our race, our sex (until recently, for certain deluded folks), the sicknesses that befall us. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What one does with his own health, apart from harming others, is his own business. Breathing air freely<\/em> is, well, everyone’s right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We think it not right to make choices which impose upon others. Though I may choose to smoke a cigar and thus pollute the air entering my lungs, that I should pollute the air going into another’s lungs is an offense.\u00a0 My rights, then, have limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If for one’s own heath he wishes to breathe freely without a mask and another wishes to protect himself from foul air by the use of the mask, let each choose according to his own volition.\u00a0 Liberty! Choice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n What happened to legitimate choices? We can choose to exercise liberty to butcher a baby that we don’t want<\/em>, but we cannot cast off a mask that we don’t want? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Who is this mandatary who thinks he knows best what is best for my<\/em> health?\u00a0 One has no freedom to go about in public without a mask, but one may butcher a baby freely? <\/p>\n\n\n\n I suspect many-a church is dutifully enforcing such mandates while making no demands of the people to stop the bloodshed in their neighborhood “clinic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are a sick nation, indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14 Sept., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No mask tyranny! This is a pro-choice matter. Can’t folks can’t figure out what is “mandatable” and what is not? Apparently not! Seat belts, masks, medicines, menus, neighborhoods, vacation destinations, employment, theater: these are all matters of CHOICE. Some things, of course, are not “mandatable”: our parents, our race, our sex (until recently, for certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,9,12,30,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}