Published on 12, July, 2020
In Scotland housing Associations are forcing doors of their tenants to install fire alarms, or they will threaten to force them so some people are opening their doors under duress.
is this morally right if the person already has a good smoke alarm and lives in a small studio flat, and that they bought their own set of fire alarms in accordance with Scottish law to put up on the walls themselves?
If you were vulnerable to covid in that you could die if you got covid how would you feel with people that could have covid coming into your home to fit fire alarms?
How would you feel if you hate noise and drills and you had no one to support you as they cannot travel to you as they are vulnerable to covid and they cant take public transport to you?
How would you feel that since it is a studio flat and that you cant go outside as you need the loo regularly that you are left having no choice but to isolate to protect yourself form covid waiting in your bathroom for 2 hours for the installation and then an additional 2 hours as covid lasts in the air for hours after someone leaves even with the windows open? how would you feel if you felt trapped in the bathroom? but had no choice as you had to protect your life due to your vulnerability.
And! you find out that the Government have added a clause to the law that means that authorities can extend the installation for vulnerable people but that your housing association is not listening to that fact?
Do you think that this is wrong in relation to disabled people?
On another case a woman did not know that they were going to force her door and she was in hysterics as she thought that they were breaking in to hurt her or rob the place.
is this all morally right?
and if any of this would trigger a meltdown to you how would you feel?
I took online martial arts and protection classes online for this very reason. I know a lot of people say about human rights etc but that's bull, someone forces entry in to your house or tries harming you they just lost their rights imo. If someone tried to do anything to me or my house I would use martial arts on them and kick them where it hurts, sure fire way of immobilising them, so I'm told. My hands are lethal weapons against the right people. You got to look out for yourself and be ready, just in case some unscrupulous character tries to do anything like that.
It's all about the proportionate use of force but when the courts decide what's proportionate they generally accept your assessment of the threat as the starting point even if that ended up being wrong in hindsight.