By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing - ..for the past two weeks, the country has been gripped in the crisis over the COVID-19 virus. The dominant, reigning premise, sweeping across all countries and “cultures” – and all parts of the media – is that our mission is to protect human life, all human lives. And to accomplish that end we are willing to upend almost everything that has become normal, and even necessary, in our lives… In this adamant conviction about the saving of human lives, there has not been a flicker of doubt even among the talking heads of the liberal media. They don’t seem to doubt that the overriding purpose is to save lives, of the young and healthy, as well of people who are older and at the edge of their lives.