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I'm endlessly fascinated by the lack of thought that goes into the assumption that because something is legal, it can't be wrong. This comes up every ethics scandal (like SNC Lavalin). And it's now reared its head in relation to pandemic behaviour. 1/n
If we can't rely on norms or guidelines of behaviour to keep people safe, or to regulate how society functions, it would mean we would have to transform every social norm, every informal rule, every guideline, into a hard and fast law. 2/n
There are good reasons to avoid doing that. And the irony is that there are libertarian-ish people defending the inherently dangerous and selfish actions of others on this very basis, that what's not illegal is part of our 'freedom' and so somehow defensible. 3/n
But it's the freedom-lovin' libertarian types who should be most upset when people flout norms and guidelines, because if people are going to do that, then we need to start talking about more enforcement restrictions, i.e. clear laws regulating stupid, dangerous behaviour. 4/4
