For several days, a strange little music has been heard about the two radical ecologists who took the liberty of blocking the Jacques-Cartier Bridge.
It sounds like this: these two activists may have paralyzed the metropolis for several hours, thus ruining the lives of tens of thousands of people, we should forgive them.
For what? Because they act for the climate. And that in the name of the climate, apparently, today, we must forgive everything. We must forgive the bridge blockers and those who seek to destroy paintings in museums.
Hostages
We will even have to forgive eco-terrorists tomorrow, as we have often heard in France in recent years.
The argument is roughly as follows: the climate cause is so important that it puts into perspective the question of the legality of the means used to promote it.
But as important as the cause of climate is, and it certainly is, whoever disputes it, this vision of things is flawed.
Because there are several essential causes in this world.
I take one that is close to my heart: the independence of Quebec. I am convinced that without it, the Quebec people will disappear.
So do I have the right, too, to block a bridge, or to ask the separatists to do so, then to plead for extenuating circumstances, since we consider the cause sacred?
Would it be possible to do it also for the cause of reducing immigration, just as vital, since it also raises the question of the existence of our people?
Democracy
Or for the animal cause, also noble?
You will have understood: knowing that there is no objective scale of causes, knowing that everyone makes what they want sacred, we cannot consider that the sincerity of convictions justifies the use of illegal means.
On the contrary: our societies must be inflexible towards those who do not respect democratic rule. The opposite would be unfair.
