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Originally Posted by Syd Thrift
The second is the reason for the first, and I would not call "being a baseball player and not a doctor" ignorant any more than you are "ignorant" for not being an expert in 11th century European history.
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You are saying that the players were too ignorant to decide on their own whether it was a good idea to play or not after four players on their team tested positive. You can make a decision for yourself on how you handle interacting with people during covid, but they cannot according to what you're saying, because they are too ignorant (they're not doctors).
I get that you don't think they should have had to make that decision. I'm 100% on board with that. I don't think they are accountable for being forced into that decision. Where I do hold them accountable is that when they were forced to make that decision, despite very accessable science and having lived in a world that screams at everyone what a good choice looks like, they made a bad choice. They cannot be absolved of that choice simply because they shouldn't have been forced to make any choice at all.
Does it suck and is it very wrong that they were made to make that choice? Absolutely! But, despite a mountain of evidence on what a good choice looks like (the same evidence you and I and everyone else bases our decisions at this time), they made a bad choice. People are forced into situations where they shouldn't be and they need to make choices in those situations all the time. They aren't absolved of wrongdoing just because they shouldn't have been in that position to begin with. Yes, we can have compassion on and simpathy for them. But wrongdoing is still wrongdoing.
EDIT: I mean, you're basically saying that anyone who is not a medical professional is too ignorant to make choices about what to do with covid so any decision is okay, because if the choice turns out bad we'll be absolved of that choice no matter what because we have all been unfairly forced into our current situation of living in a global pandemic.