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There’s No Right to Piss In the Pool

Ray Katz
3 min readJul 9, 2022

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Typhoid Mary wasn’t a freedom fighter

Photo by Junior Montalvan on Unsplash

There’s a species of fanatic that has decided he can do whatever he wants, and for him that is the essence of freedom.

He can refuse to wear a mask, refuse to get vaccinated, carry loaded AR-15s wherever and whenever he wants, and do pretty much any rude, cruel and destructive thing he chooses. He can run over protesters with his car or shoot them. Whatever it is, this is his freedom.

Basically, he says he can piss in the pool. Others can clean it up. It’s not his problem.

This is absurdity and we are foolish for even entertaining these “arguments” which are, after all, delusions and excuses for unacceptable behavior. This is the most extreme immaturity — tantrums. We should not waste time or energy answering such nonsense. It’s like trying to respond to a child’s never-ending stream of the open-ended question “why?” Only the child is sincere and the adult is simply a dolt.

Let’s state this, even though to any sane person it should be obvious: When you are cruel to others, and dangerously inconsiderate, you will be justly criticized and shunned and called on it. As you should be.

But, you will not be handed the microphone. We will not listen to your grievances and complaints and demands because you are being…

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Ray Katz
Ray Katz

Written by Ray Katz

Internet pioneer. But I’m most interested in stabilizing the Earth’s climate and promoting our common humanity. WeAreSaners.org

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