It's published by a law firm. A very powerful law firm as it is. A firm that employs lawfare, jurisprudence blackmail to push a clearly Marxist cultural agenda through expensive litigation. Working with governments and social justice warrior organizations to penalize all who stand in the way of their agenda of transforming western liberal democracies into collectivist totalitarianism.
It asserts "the ethical distribution of resources amid any pandemic is supported by the balance and tension among the four ethics principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence." Throughout the screed it bolds the world "justice" as the overriding ethical consideration that weighs collectivist authoritarian public policy above all the others. JUSTICE demands individuals make sacrifices for the greater good!!" Ethics. As they present their view of ethics.
What are your thoughts on their presentation of ethics that mandates public policy and business decisions outweigh individual sovereignty? It applies the same "ethics" to all of the social justice upheavals of our time. Subjugate the individual for the collective. Ethics. The law demands it.
I find it fascinating to understand the thought processes and logic of these foes to freedom and civil liberties, how they rationalize authoritarianism, and get the legal system to buy into it, ignoring the plain language of the US Constitution and Canadian Charter, the UN's human rights charter for that matter. Ethical "justice" claims. Thoughts?
appeals to the "greater good" have been used to justify iniquity since the beginning. consider Caiaphas, in his capacity as Chief Priest of the Sanhedrin, determining that "it is expedient that one man should die for for the people, and that the whole nation perish not" (John 11:50). These people are the enemy, or rather, and indenturing themselves the the enemy, who is Satan. Rene Girard has laid out the situation we face in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning:
“The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and "radicalizes" the concern for victims in order to paganize it. The powers and principalities want to be “revolutionary” now, and they reproach Christianity for not defending victims with enough ardor. In Christian history they see nothing but persecutions, acts of oppression, inquisitions.
This other totalitarianism presents itself as the liberator of humanity. In trying to usurp the place of Christ, the powers imitate him in the way a mimetic rival imitates his model in order to defeat him. They denounce the Christian concern for victims as hypocritical and a pale imitation of the authentic crusade against oppression and persecution for which they would carry the banner themselves. In the symbolic language of the New Testament, we would say that in our world Satan, trying to make a new start and gain new triumphs, borrows the language of victims.
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The Antichrist boasts of bringing to human beings the peace and tolerance that Christianity promised but has failed to deliver. Actually, what the radicalization of contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion, euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore but without real victims, etc."
Max, I just came across this presentation of "Bioethics in a Pandemic - Learning from the Past
https://www.mintz.com/insights-center/viewpoints/2146/2020-09-01-bioethics-pandemic-learning-past
It's published by a law firm. A very powerful law firm as it is. A firm that employs lawfare, jurisprudence blackmail to push a clearly Marxist cultural agenda through expensive litigation. Working with governments and social justice warrior organizations to penalize all who stand in the way of their agenda of transforming western liberal democracies into collectivist totalitarianism.
It asserts "the ethical distribution of resources amid any pandemic is supported by the balance and tension among the four ethics principles: autonomy, justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence." Throughout the screed it bolds the world "justice" as the overriding ethical consideration that weighs collectivist authoritarian public policy above all the others. JUSTICE demands individuals make sacrifices for the greater good!!" Ethics. As they present their view of ethics.
What are your thoughts on their presentation of ethics that mandates public policy and business decisions outweigh individual sovereignty? It applies the same "ethics" to all of the social justice upheavals of our time. Subjugate the individual for the collective. Ethics. The law demands it.
I find it fascinating to understand the thought processes and logic of these foes to freedom and civil liberties, how they rationalize authoritarianism, and get the legal system to buy into it, ignoring the plain language of the US Constitution and Canadian Charter, the UN's human rights charter for that matter. Ethical "justice" claims. Thoughts?
appeals to the "greater good" have been used to justify iniquity since the beginning. consider Caiaphas, in his capacity as Chief Priest of the Sanhedrin, determining that "it is expedient that one man should die for for the people, and that the whole nation perish not" (John 11:50). These people are the enemy, or rather, and indenturing themselves the the enemy, who is Satan. Rene Girard has laid out the situation we face in I See Satan Fall Like Lightning:
“The most powerful anti-Christian movement is the one that takes over and "radicalizes" the concern for victims in order to paganize it. The powers and principalities want to be “revolutionary” now, and they reproach Christianity for not defending victims with enough ardor. In Christian history they see nothing but persecutions, acts of oppression, inquisitions.
This other totalitarianism presents itself as the liberator of humanity. In trying to usurp the place of Christ, the powers imitate him in the way a mimetic rival imitates his model in order to defeat him. They denounce the Christian concern for victims as hypocritical and a pale imitation of the authentic crusade against oppression and persecution for which they would carry the banner themselves. In the symbolic language of the New Testament, we would say that in our world Satan, trying to make a new start and gain new triumphs, borrows the language of victims.
...
The Antichrist boasts of bringing to human beings the peace and tolerance that Christianity promised but has failed to deliver. Actually, what the radicalization of contemporary victimology produces is a return to all sorts of pagan practices: abortion, euthanasia, sexual undifferentiation, Roman circus games galore but without real victims, etc."
Beautiful. Stirring. True.