Thank you so much for writing. Yes, I always try to remain as compassionate as I can when I see people blindly adhering to rhetoric, maintaining rigid thinking/beliefs/protocols, enforcing that absolutism on others. I always believe that there is fear and uncertainty there, guilt or doubt of some description. That’s the compassionate side – trying to recognise how the rigidity, the shutting down of dialogue or flexibility – is a defence against something with which a person is struggling. But when the enforcer of dogma is in a position of authority and control, and when others around that person are vulnerable – it becomes a moral issue. When a system, like a health system, is unhelpfully enforcing a dogmatic position, to the detriment of many, it is a societal issue.