The absolution of Responsibility
Today, Canada’s ‘highest court’, an oxymoronic description of a court that routinely endorses Government positions, ruled that ‘voluntary extreme intoxication’ is a legitimate defence against charges of murder or rape.
While I catch my breath, let me point out that in reality this is simply a rubber stamp by a bunch of legal hacks on a cultural norm that has been growing in this country for sometime.
The goal of personal responsibility has been a waning value in Canada for many decades, the demise simply accelerated by the Trudeau regime and the growing stranglehold that the rabid woke mob has on the educational, corporate and Government institutions .
I see this in my work in the performing arts industry, I see it on every level of Canadian society, and the results are there for us all to watch.
Canadians wander like zombies with their masks and fear in obeisance to the media and the mob, refusing to be responsible for using their own brain to assess the non-existent risks of whatever it is they fear.
Canadians look to every possible scapegoat except themselves for all their perceived grievances in life. The cult of safety and comfort has been enshrined in a country where work and effort are seen as something to be derided rather than celebrated.
Whether it is with masks, vaccines, virtue signalling platitudes, cancel culture or ‘anti bias training’, the goal is to end any merit based society by taking responsibility from the individual and placing it in the collective. In the name of ‘equity’, there is no room for excellence, so the school boards cancel the gifted programmes that were of such benefit to those children who were intellectually hungry.
And now we are told that if we choose to drink enough, we can go out and murder or rape someone with impunity. We are told that we are immune from responsibility.
So drink up and let the darkest forces in human atavism run freely throughout the country.
When I mention this to Canadians, most of whom are sitting in a daze with their pot or alcohol in hand, they just shrug blankly. The complacency of the population is a testimony to the total victory of the State over them. They don’t even care anymore.
In every work place, the dynamics are such that they are encouraged by more reasons NOT to work than to work. Have a sniffle? Sure, take two weeks with pay.
They are encouraged by more reasons not to act than to act. The State can freeze your bank account, cancel your licence. Have a grievance? Don’t think of protesting against the State.
They are encouraged by more reasons to blindly accept, rather than skeptically question, the rule of the media controlled mob. Have a question? Why take a risk to express individual thought or responsibility when your social and work activities may be curtailed?
One has to hope that even with the use of such a defence as ‘voluntary intoxication’, a judge or jury might have the sense to adjudicate the charge reasonably and somehow rescue a glimmer of responsibility.
What else is there to do but hope?