04-16-2020, 03:33 PM
(04-15-2020, 12:30 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Somebody out and said it... As CNN reports...
Quote:An Indiana congressman said Tuesday that letting more Americans die from the novel coronavirus is the "lesser of two evils" compared with the economy cratering due to social distancing measures.
Speaking with radio station WIBC in Indiana, Republican Rep. Trey Hollingsworth asserted that, while he appreciated the science behind the virus' spread, "it is always the American government's position to say, in the choice between the loss of our way of life as Americans and the loss of life, of American lives, we have to always choose the latter."
It figures -- putting profits above life.
Life is rough. Whatever was wrong with a personal life before COVID-19 hits people even harder. A bad domestic situation? It is more in your face. Anyone out of work with a proclivity to do child abuse is even more dangerous. A life that was grim, dreary, and joyless is probably even more so. Anything that goes wrong may be harder to solve now.
Getting out of the restraints that most of us know will be at the least a short-term relief. The big problem is that we end up with more needless deaths.
We rightly put life above economic gain. Indiana has the death penalty for killing for economic gain, whether for an inheritance or (much more likely) in a robbery.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.