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*Image: A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson, c.1862 [Brooklyn Museum]
By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing, Aug. 21, 2020
David Carlin is a retired professor of sociology and philosophy at the Community College of Rhode Island, and the author of The Decline and Fall of the Catholic Church in America.
In recent months I’ve been puzzled by two nationwide phenomena.
First, the conviction expressed by many people – by those on the Left more far more than by those on the Right – that saving lives from COVID-19 deaths is so important that we should pretty much “lock down” the nation’s economic, academic, religious, and beer-drinking life to accomplish this end.
Now I personally am in favor of saving lives, especially since I belong to a vulnerable demographic. That is, I’m an old guy with two or three “underlying conditions.” But saving the lives of people who are old and diseased rarely means that such people will once again be up and about, playing tennis or running half-marathons or working on engineering projects. No, it means to extend their lives by a year or two, or a month or two. …
