I’ve talked a number of times with a neighbor about the dangers of the shots. Most recently, I showed him a news piece on the 5th doctor who died in the Greater Toronto area in a 2-week period. It included a photo of the dead doctor - just 27, vibrant, radiant. For several months now, my neighbor has no longer been willing to have a second booster. But he hasn’t mentioned this to either of his adult sons. When I brought this up recently, his answer was: That’s not my responsibility. I disagreed.
So here’s the question: What responsibility do we each have?
My position: we each have the responsibility to warn as many people as we can. If we know a thunderstorm is coming and we see people heading onto the lake in a boat, it’s our responsibility to let them know, to warn them about the coming storm. If we know the Nazis are coming for Jewish neighbors, it’s our responsibility to let our neighbors know, to warn them.
I told my neighbor that.
I also said that, to be an adult means we have this responsibility. It’s the responsibility of us all to do what we can to protect people as much as we can from danger - maybe especially from dangers we know about and they don’t.
What if one of your sons dies from the next booster, and you haven’t warned him, I added. In that case, his death is on you. You did nothing. You chose not to do what you could to protect him.
He’s a grown up man, went my neighbor. It’s not for me to interfere.
You can’t control what he does with the information, I answered. It is your responsibility to protect him as much as you can - in this case by letting him know what you believe, and letting him know where he can get more information.
The conversation went on for a while.
My neighbor had never heard anyone say anything like what I said.
My sense: my neighbor learned.
Note: he’s a nice caring person. He just hadn’t questioned the boundaries he lived within.
My very strong position: it’s the responsibility of each of us to reach out wherever we can, as well as we can, to protect as well as we can. As I have reached out to my neighbor, for instance.
Often, by the way, we don’t realize how many opportunities we have to reach people. I remember, years ago, on the train with a friend, I was astounded when she somehow brought up Islam - the dangers inherent in the ideology - in at least half a dozen casual conversations. It just didn’t occur to me to bring up Islamic ideology. I learned!
A final thought. Warning others may also protect us. If we each reach, say, one person a month - not a high number - that is 12 people a year. Just imagine if the numbers of those awake to the dangers of the injections multiplied 12-fold in a year. Quite something.
Posted: August 1, 2022
"He just hadn’t questioned the boundaries he lived within." -> the importance of being aware of the size of the box we are in and the space available outside of this box.
Thanks for spending the time to write this article Elsa. I have also thought about responsibility. The first responsibility we have is towards ourselves. I am responsible for myself. Now, if someone is actively hurting or trying to hurt People around me then what kind of responsibility to I have? Let's imagine you know it and you do nothing. I think the responsibility we have to ourselves is to act according to our value. If I value truth, if I value human life then I have a responsibility towards myself to support these values or principles. If I do not do so I fail myself. Ok, so what? Then I think it is about calling People's value... do you value human life? Do you value unity? Do you have respect? I would call these values first. If they exist in someone then they could be a driver to get her or him to act. Now, if they don't I would leverage People's greed and egoism meaning that I would explain them the upcoming cost on themselves of not acting as they will be negatively impacted as well. My 2 cents