jkcerda on 23/3/2020 at 01:50
Quote Posted by icemann
If the virus really did start the way that I've been reading (in "wet markets" in China, where endangered animals are killed and then eaten). That is some evil stuff. Makes the virus a karma of sorts.
Not saying for a second, that all the people in Europe and elsewhere deserved it. But those people doing that to the defenseless animals I don't have sympathy for. For everyone else, completely undeserved.
Amen, ton of videos where dogs are skinned alive while being cooked.
Renzatic on 23/3/2020 at 02:00
I've watched videos of them doing that to puppies and kittens. It's terrible.
Renzatic on 23/3/2020 at 02:14
The greatest thing about the Chinese is that, thanks to them, we're no longer the rudest tourists in the world.
demagogue on 23/3/2020 at 02:24
Anyway we're all in this together now. Things like that happen in regions that aren't developed, and it's hard to control even without all the systemic problems working against it.
Right now I'm trying to find some sanguinity, and I recommend it for everyone.
Mr. Duck posted a good NYTimes (
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-camus-plague.html) article on FB about Camus's novel
The Plague, a novel which connected with me (like all of his books), this one so much so that I started the map for a kind of first person adventure game of it, where you couldn't escape but you did have the option of helping your neighbors.
The part I'm quoting below, especially the last three sentences, capture the attitude I'd like to take. Nothing good comes from suffering, and it carries with it the threat that if you don't regularly check your humanity, in fighting the monster you start to become the monster. I mean people become overcome with fear and then anger and callousness and they start to dehumanize other people. The only way to really combat that kind of threat is decency, respecting the humanity of others and that we're facing the absurdity of pointless suffering together, and just doing good for each other to lessen it as best we can.
Quote Posted by Alain de Botton - Camus on the Coronavirus
At the height of the contagion, when 500 people a week are dying, a Catholic priest called Paneloux gives a sermon that explains the plague as God's punishment for depravity. But Dr. Rieux has watched a child die and knows better: Suffering is randomly distributed, it makes no sense, it is simply absurd, and that is the kindest thing one can say of it.
The doctor works tirelessly to lessen the suffering of those around him. But he is no hero. “This whole thing is not about heroism,” Dr. Rieux says. “It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague is with decency.” Another character asks what decency is. “Doing my job,” the doctor replies.
Renzatic on 23/3/2020 at 03:31
MARXIST INDOCTRINATION? IN MY VAGINA? I MEAN SCHOOLS?
Tocky on 23/3/2020 at 06:12
Irony? Hell, I laughed out loud. Now if only he wasn't rich and had to face this like a man.
