Do National COVID Mandates Fulfill the Public Good?

The public incursions against freedom have been protested, but the small private matter of conscience has received scant attention.

Martin Luther once noted that "To go against conscience is neither right nor safe." The great civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. echoed his words.

"On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expedience asks the question, 'Is it politic?' And Vanity comes along and asks the question 'Is it popular?' But Conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge, moments of great crisis and controversy."

The worth of individual conscience is the great legacy of the West, and its blessings have spread with the Nuremberg Code, and in political defences of conscience.

Individuals ignore their conscience at the peril of their own souls, and when technocratic science is given the lead over the conscience of the nation, so much greater is the ruin.

English playwright George Bernard Shaw described a Native American elder's account of his own struggles with conscience: "Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, 'the one I feed the most.'".

The moral goodness of the freedom of association, the freedom of peaceful assembly, the freedom of thought and expression, and the freedom of conscience and religion are enshrined as fundamental rights in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/do-national-covid-mandates-fulfill-the-public-good_3968290.html?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=ZeroHedge