The Corona Plague
In this year of our Lord 2021, I think back 50 years to my short time at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It was a place just 15 miles from my home in Bowie, where I had been adorned with various accolades involving the sport of wrestling and took Kathie Lee (then Kathy Epstein) to the prom.
At the USNA, a principle was highlighted and re-iterated throughout our training: “Choose the hard right over the easy wrong.” It was a good principle to be conveyed to “plebes” – the Academy’s term for freshmen – and I am happy to have recalled the principle on many occasions. Doing right is often difficult in a world subverted by sin long ago and still wallowing in its effects.
What is the right decision regarding the vaccine? It is good to protect one’s own life and that of others from sickness. And yet is it never good to seek to do good by the use of corrupt means. If the vaccine solution for the virus plague was obtained by morally corrupt means, then the benefits offered by the vaccine might well be rejected.
It may be argued that the genesis of such corruption occurred long, long ago and has no relevance to any effort to object and oppose the detached evil of abortion.
Indeed, evil is everywhere to be found and our duty is to avoid it whenever possible. And it may well be argued that there is so much evil (e.g. paying taxes to a government which protects child-murder and sodomy; retaining one’s citizenship with those who refuse to resist such an atrocity, i.e. failing to leave the country), that we are all guilty and worthy of the very plague from which we seek to be immunized.
And if, indeed, the plague is a consequence of sin, If, indeed, our toleration of child-slaughter is the very cause, then a swift and efficient end to such cause by any means necessary ought to be welcomed.
So, let us not fail to cheer when the providers of the solution to the plague enter onto the seen and eliminate the cause by whatever means necessary. Most swift, we understand, are incendiary devices, but liberty must indeed, be afforded to those who can provide the service by any means they choose. It is all about choice.
14 May, 2021
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