Researchers point out that people who refuse to wear masks are 'hypocritical,' and what's wrong?



With the pandemic of the new coronavirus becoming a problem all over the world, many people are wearing masks to prevent the spread of the virus. However, some people have categorically refused to wear masks, claiming that 'humans have the right not to wear them.'

Luke Zaphir , a researcher at the Critical Thinking Project at the University of Queensland in Australia, points out these people as ' hypocritical ' and cites the problems of hypocritical people.

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Many people who refuse to wear masks complain, 'It is a violation of human rights to force people to wear masks, and I have the right not to wear them.' He claims that even if you don't wear a mask, it doesn't matter if the people around you keep a distance and wear a mask.

But Zaphir accuses these people of being 'hypocritical'. Zaphir described 'hypocrisy' as a term that refers to 'a state of moral inconsistency,' while many people who refuse to wear masks say they should 'protect their rights.' You should protect the rights of others.'

Article 3 of the

Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations states that 'Everyone has the right to life, freedom and physical safety', and people have the right to live safely. Zaphir says that refusing to wear a mask denies the right to anyone who refuses to wear a mask, as it causes the spread of the virus and threatens the right of others to live safely.


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Elvert Barnes

Zaphir points out that people who complain of the right to refuse to wear masks ignore the 'responsibility' associated with the rights they claim. If you want your own right to live, you must be responsible for the right of others to live, and if you shout for the right to own things, you must respect the property rights of others, If you claim 'right to use,' you must allow 'share public space with others.' 'It is hypocritical to believe in one's rights without a corresponding responsibility,' Zaphir said.

Without clean air and water-based public health, people are ill, the economy is stagnant, the loved ones die, and the quality of life is significantly reduced. Hypocritical people just abstract their rights and insist that 'I have the right not to wear a mask in public', but sincerely say 'Public health can collapse.' Only a few think.

Zaphir points out that, without abstracting the hypocrites' claims, 'I'm willing to benefit from public health, but I'm not going to keep it in my mask.' He certainly admitted that a person might have a 'right to wear a mask,' but blamed hypocrisy for benefiting from public health and not taking responsibility for it.



Zaphir points out the question of why hypocrites are born, 'because humans have too much flexibility in their thinking.' Though flexibility of thinking is important for accepting various opinions, sometimes flexibility distorts the thinking process and maintains two standards that are originally incompatible.

'When we are hypocritical, we create injustice,' Zaphir said, hypocritical acts and thoughts can cause the right things to fail, harming or sickening people. Insist that there is. For example, many dictatorships and fascists are just hypocrites themselves, claiming that they are national security, tradition, and freedom defenders, while oppressing and killing people to ensure their safety and security. It is hypocritical that it violates freedom.

Not only those who refuse to wear masks, but humans are good at abstract thinking, so there is a risk that anyone will unknowingly fall into hypocritical thinking. To avoid that, Zaphir says he can maintain morally consistent thinking by thinking about the principles he believes and the responsibilities that accompany them, and capturing them in a more specific context.



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