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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
It is a trivial matter to break lockdown rules.
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I guess it depends what you call ‘trivial’. It would not be trivial if it was an imprisonable offence.
The global pandemic was not trivial, I agree, but I don’t think partygate caused any deaths, do you?
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Again, when cornered your only recourse is to flip and start discussing the narrow issue of where the offence sits on the scale of criminal seriousness. That, as we have already established, and as you have admitted, is not the point.
Earlier you admitted there is a moral component to the behaviour of our leaders. It is in that moral area that this issue is anything but trivial, because the ‘grand scheme of things’ isn’t the standard scale of fixed penalty offences, it’s the question of whether our leaders model the behaviour they demand of their populations at times of national crisis.