american history is covered in this concept, and when we were at our best? the majorities were marked by this concern for their fellow countrymen. he’s giving up his freedom (in MAJOR ways) for you and me. the guy who’s in a prison camp overseas to defend you? talk to him about sacrifice for the greater good, and then get back to me about how your glasses fog up. We can’t have a (healthy, in every dimension) society, if we’re not looking out for the society’s ultimate freedoms. Well, your “freedom” is now impeding ours. but, if you’re assigned to our group, and you’re either if you’re kid the corner who doesn’t want to do his homework and get an ‘f,’ sure, most of us will roll out the red carpet for your freedom. I know one of the analogies running around about this is the whole “group project” mentality. Start harming others with your words? you’ll see how quickly “free” speech, isn’t.įire your gun straight up in the air (‘harming’ no one) in a large, public gathering, and you’ll see how quickly you…’ll not be in public, any more. Underneath the united states freedom laws is a guiding principle of… “as long as it doesn’t harm another’s rights/freedoms/well-being/liberties.” At some point, when you've tried to reason with a person, when no attempt at rationality or empathy manages to placate them, when they're wholly determined to fight you head-on, then there comes a point when you have to accept the challenge and deal with them on their terms. I'm glad that somebody has the guts to aim directly for this runaway train and not beat around the bush. As with most things in the world, there has to be a balance between the interests of the individual and the interests of a society. This placement of individual "freedom" above all other considerations - including the well-being of all the humans around one - has been one of the most caustic, destructive forces in modern American society, and with climate change already having placed one foot in the proverbial door, will surely lead to our collective demise. (Here comes the "but".lol)īut I also think that the American concept of "freedom" has become like a runaway train with no brakes. © 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc.I agree with you for the most part. “You cannot say, ‘No one is going tell me that I’m going to stop here at this traffic light here, I’m going to go right through it.’ Yeah, then you kill someone else and then it is your doing.” Earlier this month, Schwarzenegger was spotted bike riding in Los Angeles. “We put the traffic light at the intersection so someone doesn’t kill someone else by accident,” Schwarzenegger said. Anthony Fauci and follow guidelines that he and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention implement. He also demanded that Americans respect experts like Dr. The people out there, the experts, they study this year after year after year.” He also used his experience as a bodybuilder to make his case to trust modern medicine: “There’s no one that knows more about a bicep than I do because I studied this issue for 50 years and the same is also with the virus. You are supposed to protect your fellow Americans around you.”Īrnold Schwarzenegger said people who are worried about their “freedom” should care about how their actions affect others. “You’re a schmuck for not wearing a mask. “Yeah, you have the freedom to wear no mask - but you know something?” Schwarzenegger continued. The 74-year-old actor was part of a panel with CNN’s Alex Vindman and Bianna Golodryga to discuss misinformation and COVID-19 policy. “There is a virus here - it kills people,” Schwarzenegger said, “and the only way we prevent it is get vaccinated, get masks, do social distancing, washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about ‘Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.’ No, screw your freedom.” The “Terminator” film icon and former governor of California spoke via YouTube Wednesday to urge “schmucks” to follow the rules and get vaccinated to “protect your fellow Americans.” People looking to get new COVID vaccine getting hit with massive fees: reportīiden admin tried to censor this Stanford doctor - even pressuring Facebook to delete page - but he triumphed in courtĪrnold Schwarzenegger says “Hasta la vista” to anti-maskers as COVID-19 regulations return amid the Delta variant. Joe Biden receives new COVID-19 vaccine and flu shot ahead of cold and flu season Billions for tests and jabs sure to go to waste: Federal COVID-iocy marches on
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