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EricHiggin on 15 July 2020
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Hiku said:
EricHiggin said:

Better time than people, I always say.

I'll save you the time, by pointing out that it's about what's essential to the individual first, and the community second. The question you aren't asking is, is the job essential to me? If the answer to that happens to be no, as in I don't so much require the money, then you can't help but ask why am I doing it then, or more importantly, why have I gone back to that sector of work again? Maybe it potentially has to do with my morals? Considering trades aren't exactly a dime a dozen, the more specialized one's even beyond that, and what they provide tends to be deemed as necessity in today's world.

I was asking why you were making a point of there being a power outage at the hospital, as if you don't understand that a power plant is considered essential, and would always be in operation.

And no, the term 'essential workers' is not about the individual first. Or at all. It's work deemed necessary to meet basic needs of human survival and well-being — food, health, safety and sanitation.

Here's a quick guide:

Fire department = Yes
Hair salon = No

Pharmacy = Yes
Disney Land = No

If you're going to argue the semantics of the term 'essential' to try to obscure the term to mean something else, then in similar fashion we'll deem you not essential to this thread.

Sorry. My bad. I didn't realize agreement was also essential..

What was I thinking?

You're missing the point as to why that was brought up though. I'm saying the power plant and the entire system isn't fully automated. Without those workers, some people will die. So what they may do is essential, but those people aren't robots. They aren't slaves to that job. The reasons they do that job matters greatly, and suggesting that a person in that position has no morals, or a lack of them, in comparison to someone else who is or isn't deemed an essential worker of another sort is nonsense. Someone else having the "moral high ground" because they automatically deem their job more virtuous, is, well, to be expected in today's world unfortunately. Not that there couldn't be any merit in that thought process, but it's not like my job is selling t-shirts. I can see why some may be confused though since they 'know how much I love my t's..'

Last edited by EricHiggin - on 15 July 2020