I think the reason I found the Finlayson piece so offensive is that it was an accusation of a lack of moral courage. It ignored the very commonplace, very explicit moral obligation that people felt and spoke about: we *should* keep to the lockdown because it is the right thing...

And instead made a massive jump that people complied *against* their conscience or in its absence, and therefore the compliance was an act of moral cowardice or some kind of unthinking herd behaviour.

This is a self-serving cherry-picking heap of fallacies designed to aggrandise "dissenters" as the morally courageous heroes.

It& #39;s not that dissenters were acting in bad faith - some had good points, and even some of those with bad points had good intentions. But Finlayson& #39;s presumption that they were the *only* ones acting in good faith, with moral intent? That is wildly bad faith.

But also: "we used to be a nation that would stand up against killing other people for imperial interest but now we are willing to stay home to prevent disease spread look how far we& #39;ve fallen" is just the dumbest fucking thing I& #39;ve ever heard.