After people trusted them for years, this business violated their trust. They wrote that hateful message on a piece of paper and stuck it on their window. They practiced arbitrary discrimination, ostracisation, social stigmatisation, and participated in hate practices towards a minority non priviledged group and violated privacy on the majority group by forcing them to provide private information (via a vaccine passport) in 2021-2022. If those practices go against your values and you want to be coherent with your values, you might wanna boycott if you prefer not to put your trust and money in the hands of people who acted that way and never publically apologized for offending their neighbor and kept and still keep living their lives as if nothing had happened. *** Order Givers and Order Followers " Following Orders means doing what you are told to do, without judging for yourself whether or not the action you are being ordered to carry out is Right or Wrong. If an individual is following orders, that individual CAN NOT be exercising Conscience, since, by definition, exercising Conscience means that one is willfully choosing for themselves Right Action over Wrong Action. "I was just following orders" is NEVER a valid excuse or "justification" for immoral, (or) criminal behavior, and this lame attempt to abdicate personal responsibility SHOULD NEVER BE ACCEPTED as a valid excuse for such behavior. The term Justification comes from the Latin noun jus: "right; law" and the Latin verb facere: "to make; to create". Justification = To "Create" A Right." *** Les commerçants ne sont pas coupables de l'avoir ordonné. Et ne l'auraient pour la très grosse majorité (hormis quelques extrémistes) jamais fait de leur plein gré ou de leur propre initiative. À ce niveau, les commerçants sont innocents. Les commerçants sont coupables d'avoir exécuté l'ordre. *** '' There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws ''. Martin Luther King Jr. on Just and Unjust Laws Excerpts from a letter to fellow clergymen written from Birmingham City Jail, April 16, 1963 *** "You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her soul." - Mahatma Gandhi *** The businesses of Québec who complied will have to forgive themseles but will have face the responsability for their unethical and unacceptable actions. They should know that people in other parts of the world did stand up.
