One of the most troubling aspects of the Government’s response to the pandemic was its complete disregard for ethics. It seems not to have occurred to the decision-makers that the instant removal of fundamental civil liberties required – and must always require – the most comprehensive ethical justification.
During the largely self-made crisis, the Government passed sweeping mandates with barely any serious reflection on the impacts on millions of people’s lives, and stubbornly refused to listen to a multitude of far more thoughtful, well-informed alternatives.
Inexcusably, it appears that the main reason the Government and its advisors neglected to consider ethics was brute ignorance – they didn’t think about ethics because they have no idea why it is important. To them ethics is at best a scarcely relevant adjunct to ‘following the science’.
Had they understood ethics – or bothered to ask people who do – they would have been able to approach policymaking in a properly balanced and effective manner.
Isn't that so reassuringly sweet, so 'Letter to the Editor' reassuringly bourgeois: "Dear Sir, I wish to complain ... signed disgruntled." A safe world of Christian or Aristotlean values where one commutes each workday and nods to the same passengers on the train.
Until something like the blitzkrieg is visited upon them or far worse ... the Enemy already within, warping young minds in schools and at public libraries where they're 'gender reassigning' 5 and 6 year olds, in rainbow colours, the indigenous ethnic group now overrun by those of quite different ethics indeed. And such creeps are being nominated for SCOTUS - how on earth did she get to be a 'judge' in the first place?
'Disregarding' ethics? Disregarding? These Schwab, Gates and Soros myrmidons don't even know what ethics are or if they can get some sort of concept of them, ethics are hurled to the ground, stomped on, urinated upon and citizens are invited to join them in the horror ... or else no vaxx pass for you to get into your pubs and clubs.
Christian values? What's a Christian anyway these days?
Ah, I know ... don't tell me ... it's a paedo priest or Irish bomber of market squares, innit? It's a pointy-hatted, incense swinging mumbler of the litany, like the false Pope or Welby, like Jimmy Swaggart and other Merc driving, luxury living tele-evangelists we never watch. It's a curious couple who won't bake a gay cake, it's two earnest young men in suits knocking on your door, asking the couch potato if he's found Jesus today. Guy looks under his couch. "Nope, I know I put it somewhere last night."
Meanwhile, on the box is respectable Klaus, he of the codpiece and nothing else on that beach, assuring everyone that all their aid for the Ukraine has been sent as food parcels, not weaponry for Azov battalion to slaughter citizens with, not to mention everyone skimming off their share along the way, as with Live Aid all those years ago, let's all sing Kumbaya, lovely Hobbiton residents, well done, wave another candle and signal some more virtue.
Who's the nasty person here, mind like a gutter? Who's the blind loon? Which politicians and supporters are advocating full term abortion and even post ... and signing it into law? It ain't us nasty people, I can tell you that.
G.K. Chesterton had a character who had walked the sewers of the human soul abandoned, he'd seen the bestial and was there to offer help, succour, as the Parish pastor used to do. Where are they now? Gone, along with their burnt out churches or those still standing with doors firmly bolted against the population.
Whence any sanity whatever these days, any sense of hope? From the bedraggled ragtag still of the old values is it not? Allies finally combining out of sheer necessity.
Have a lovely Saturday, chaps and chapesses. To fellow keyboard warriors ... just ignore the perma-flak and keep on battling.
