The same kind of people (this time the Battle Ground City Council) who argued, as a matter of personal freedom, that the owners of a bakery be allowed to discriminate against a gay couple wanting a wedding cake, are now contemplating a regulation preventing people, including store owners, from having the freedom to establish terms of service in their very own establishments. They claim to be doing this out of a sense of patriotism and resistance to the “medical tyranny” of mask mandates.
But this is not patriotism. Patriotism is sacrificing personally on behalf of one’s nation and one’s fellow citizens. No, this is not patriotism. This is selfishness and hypocrisy on a major scale. This is putting a personal minor inconvenience, a mask while shopping, for example, above the health and well-being of your fellow citizens. This is selfishness and the very antithesis, the polar opposite of patriotism.
