There is a difference between freedom and rights: be careful not to fall into a watered-down anarchy

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by Monica Valendino

Once upon a time you needed to see to believe. Today you can see and hear everything on TV and the internet, so you believe everything. And the confusion that creeps between politics and ordinary people does nothing but generate uncertainties or false certainties depending on how you want to look at it. For example, it is fashionable today to talk about freedom: to demonstrate, to work, to take care of oneself as one wishes, to be able to affirm what one wishes without any censorship. A world that tastes more of a watered down anarchy than of a world where the law is in force. Because there is a big difference between freedom and rights. The first even takes on a negative aspect, of not being forced to any rule; the second, on the other hand, has a positive value, of claiming freedom through rules.

Here we are, in today’s world where Italian politics governed by the best (which we remember derives from the Greek, which originates the aristocracy) offers the worst of itself in terms of rules. The green pass so much wanted by Mario Draghi from the beginning raised doubts. Both on health effectiveness and above all for how it is conceived. Some examples? Why does the duration have to be one year when the validity of vaccines is much shorter? Why allow only those vaccinated with one dose when the real protection (which is not one hundred percent complete) occurs with the second and now with the third dose? Because it serves sui long trips mileage and not in the clogged subways or local buses? Why can we all stay together at the bar at the counter, while at the spaced table we need to show the pass? Especially because blackmail people at work (guaranteed by Article 1 of the Constitution) when would it be enough at this point to impose a heterogeneous vaccination obligation? Perhaps you are afraid of requests for compensation due to a serum that, if you prefer, remains emergency?

On the other hand, the freedom to oppose a non-obligation too often takes on connotations dark, with those who have an interest in creating further confusion (as if politicians and doctors themselves were not enough to create it) who find fertile ground in people who can’t wait to say no to something. Whether it is the vaccine itself, or whether it is the pass or the rules that must apply in times of pandemics.
But instead of reasoning, politics continues to offer doubts: about children now another battle will open. Until yesterday they were safe, schools open and no serious risk. Now you point your finger at them as a potential reservoir for infection. So why not close schools directly if they are at such risk, at least until the vaccination campaign won’t it protect them? However, he is betting that even the most favorable parents of the line so far held by the government will have significant doubts about vaccinating their children.

Finally, the big question, the one that has not yet received an answer: why be afraid of the unvaccinated if the proposed serum really has the declared efficacy? After all, at that point the problem should be relative, given the result obtained to date in terms of coverage of the population. Or is something not even there? And here then is that the right to lay down rules becomes arbitrary and the duty to contest certain inconsistencies results in false rights disguised as freedom.

The solution? Turn off the TV, use the internet and especially social media not to seek answers, but to ask questions and demand clarity. But let’s bet that with slogans, blackmail and changes of direction, the end of the tunnel is not near?

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