29
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
29 points (96.8% liked)
Canada
7203 readers
168 users here now
What's going on Canada?
Communities
๐ Meta
๐บ๏ธ Provinces / Territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland and Labrador
- Northwest Territories
- Nova Scotia
- Nunavut
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Yukon
๐๏ธ Cities / Local Communities
- Calgary (AB)
- Edmonton (AB)
- Greater Sudbury (ON)
- Halifax (NS)
- Hamilton (ON)
- Kootenays (BC)
- London (ON)
- Mississauga (ON)
- Montreal (QC)
- Nanaimo (BC)
- Oceanside (BC)
- Ottawa (ON)
- Port Alberni (BC)
- Regina (SK)
- Saskatoon (SK)
- Thunder Bay (ON)
- Toronto (ON)
- Vancouver (BC)
- Vancouver Island (BC)
- Victoria (BC)
- Waterloo (ON)
- Winnipeg (MB)
๐ Sports
Hockey
- List of All Teams: Post on /c/hockey
- General Community: /c/Hockey
- Calgary Flames
- Edmonton Oilers
- Montrรฉal Canadiens
- Ottawa Senators
- Toronto Maple Leafs
- Vancouver Canucks
- Winnipeg Jets
Football (NFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Football (CFL)
- List of All Teams:
unknown
Baseball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Blue Jays
Basketball
- List of All Teams:
unknown - Toronto Raptors
Soccer
- List of All Teams:
unknown - General Community: /c/CanadaSoccer
- Toronto FC
๐ป Universities
๐ต Finance / Shopping
- Personal Finance Canada
- BAPCSalesCanada
- Canadian Investor
- Buy Canadian
- Quebec Finance
- Churning Canada
๐ฃ๏ธ Politics
- Canada Politics
- General:
- By Province:
๐ Social and Culture
Rules
Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Losing a week of pay means they can't make rent, then they lose their home, now we have homeless children.
Pick your poison.
For people like me, dead children is always the worst possible scenario but you do you.
I think it's more about having sympathy for the cruddy situation they might be in, not necessarily what the best or optimal outcomes would have been.
I will never be sympathetic to people who put other people's children's lives at risk for any reason.
Never.
That's is incredibly selfish and entitled.
It's a bad situation for sure but risking someone else's child is unforgivable.
People will tend toward prioritizing their kids over other kids in general. So, when having to choose between feeding and housing their kid or maybe another kid getting sick (and carefully not thinking about them maybe dying), they choose to feed their kid.
Rather than getting angry that some parents aren't as noble as you, perhaps consider directing your ire toward a system where a parent can't afford to stay home without the financial harm impacting their kid. Mandatory paid sick days would make this much easier.
No.
Putting other people's children at risk will never be acceptable.
Period.
And here I thought the goal was to put no children at risk.
There is no circumstance where putting someone else's child's life at risk is acceptable. Period.
Ever.
You're an amoral, toxicly entitled assholes if you do.
I'm a pragmatist. I don't see the point in making people make hard choices when they don't have to. The vast majority of people will always choose us over them, and not many things are more 'us' than our children. So rather than rail against the imperfection of humanity, I'd rather promote the idea this issue should never arise. Our nation is wealthy enough that people shouldn't have to risk their or other people's health when they or their kids are sick, yet we have nothing in place for most employees to make sure that doesn't have to be a consideration. I'd posit those who have the power to change are not merely amoral, but rather are immoral, and those who have no sympathy for those in the position to have to choose the health of their kids versus the health of some other kid are out of touch or insensitive.
Putting your convenience before the health of other people's children is entitled and selfish. Public health ordered them to keep their children isolated until they had tested negative and remained symptom free for a few days. Instead they risked sickening or killing other people's children. That is never acceptable. I am sympathetic to their inconvenience but it's an entitled, selfish asshole move to risk the lives of other people's children for any reason.
I think they should be charged with violating a public health order and had my children been sickened because of their selfishness I would be suing them for every penny I could get out of them.
It is NEVER acceptable. EVER.