Chris Selley: With his overnight shenanigans at Queen's Park, who exactly is Premier Ford calling dysfunctional?

Anyone who gives a shit about themselves and their family implicitly gives a shit about morality. Fair enough, morals are fluid and open to interpretation, but ultimately the basic laws that we all ascribe to (don't steal, don't assault, don't destroy property, murder, rape etc) are rooted in a morality that the vast majority of us agree with and consent to. It's easy to make the argument that one persons morality isn't necessarily mine or yours or whatever, but at some point we need to agree on SOME kind of standard so we can even just walk down the street without worrying about being robbed or stabbed or punched or you name it. Now, to the point you're trying to make, this is absolutely a moral issue, insomuch as democracy is based on an agreed upon morality, that morality being that each citizen has a vote, equal to the next, and that what happens in any community happens by the consent of those who exist in that community, local, provincial, national, you name it, The problem here is that if the OPC is successful in imposing this change on Toronto, by subverting a legal decision by the courts no less, it sets the stage for the same thing happening elsewhere if they so choose. I don't know if you're in Toronto or not, but if not, how would you feel about the provincial government imposing something on your community that is deeply unpopular in said community? Because, make no mistake, this is deeply unpopular in Toronto. So yeah, this is absolutely a moral issue as well as a political issue, and I'd be surprised if anyone could untangle the philosophy and morality that is baked into our political system from our political system, which itself is rooted in morality and philosophy. Whether you like it or not morality is central to this issue.

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