Death by Moral Failing

In any discussion related to morality and moral codes, we need to first define what morality and moral codes are. For this purpose, I have the following short definition: Morality relates to actions that enhance our own and everybody else's chance of living a good and prosperous life, and a moral code is a set of actions believed to promote this desired end-result.

Keeping things abstract for now, we can go on to list actions with potential consequences as follows:

1. Acts with the potential to hurt ourselves and others
2. Acts with the potential to benefit ourselves and others
3. Acts with the potential to benefit ourselves but hurt others
4. Acts with the potential to hurt ourselves but benefit others

The word 'potential' represents a scale that goes from near certainty to very unlikely, and our ability to determine the likely outcome of an action is obviously of great importance in this.

Real life is rarely a clear cut choice between absolutes, yet some actions will be avoided or engaged in regardless of the certainty of outcome. Point 1 will for instance only be acted upon in situations of desperation where the aim is to hurt other, no matter the cost to ourselves. Conversely, point 2 will almost always be acted upon; the only exception being deep hatred for the others.

Point 3 is also rarely acted upon. We know that this kind of selfish behaviour has a way of coming back to us, so we don't engage in them. The long term price of a short term gain is simply too much to pay. Knowing that we'll cause harm is also a big factor, and often the most important at that.

It's only when we get to point 4 that various moral nuances become apparent. Certainty of outcome becomes important. The way we value ourselves and others become important too. Most people will probably jump into a stream of water to save a puppy from drowning, provided that the stream is shallow and slow moving. But we won't do the same if the stream is replaced by a roaring current.

What makes point 4 all the more interesting is that the opposite of action is inaction, which means that those who refuse to act are merely sitting put. They aren't acting in an opposite manner. We aren't actively drowning the puppy for refusing to rescue it. We might be reprimanded for not picking the puppy out of a slow moving stream, but no-one can seriously blame us for refusing to jump into a roaring current to do the same.

In fact, jumping into a roaring current to save a puppy would reflect a failure to judge risk correctly, and a moral failure to value our own life correctly. Yet, many would see this kind of excessive risk taking as somehow noble and just.

This is why so many young men decided to enlist for the army at the start of World War 1. They judged the risk relatively low to themselves, and they valued themselves low relative to those they hoped to help by putting their lives at risk.

As it turned out, many of those who volunteered for World War 1 didn't survive the experience. The risk turned out to be much greater than they anticipated, and the value set on their lives by the ones they hoped to help was appallingly low.

If they hoped to benefit themselves and their community by enlisting, they failed. From a moral standpoint, the war was a failure in all respects. No-one benefited, and millions died. Yet, throughout the war, and for many years after, the morally failed were celebrated, and the ones with the common sense and moral backbone to resist conscription were demonized.

This pattern has now repeated with three years of vaccine propaganda. The vaccinated are heroes, despite the persistently high rates of excess deaths we're currently registering. Being reckless and stupid is seen as noble, while being principled and full of foresight is seen as evil.

Notable deaths according to Wikipedia

The vaccinated are presented as heroes precisely because they failed, it seems. They failed to judge the risks correctly relative to rewards, and they failed to value themselves correctly relative to the people they hoped to save. Some young people were willing to risk years of their lives in order to give a terminally ill patient a few more weeks of life. That's neither moral nor courageous. On the contrary, it's morally and logically wrong.

Making this all the worse is the fact that many of these failed moral beings engaged in pressure campaigns to coerce and deceive their moral superiors. They applauded the development of vaccine passports, the segregation of society into the vaccinated and unvaccinated, the construction of internment camps for the unvaccinated, and the denial of entry into sports and business without valid proof of vaccination.

All of these evils were promoted by those who failed to see the dangers before them. Yet, they are the heroes, and they will probably remain heroes in the eyes of the majority, just like the crippled veterans of World War 1 were hailed as heroes until the very last of them was finally dead and buried.

But none of this matters in the end. I have no need of approval by strangers who made bad choices for themselves. I didn't take any medicines in the misguided hope that it would benefit others. I'm not the one wondering if I may wake up dead tomorrow morning due to the medicine I took. That's all for the heroes to endure, and I'm happy that I'm not one of them. I'm also happy that I never pressured anyone but my wife into inaction when the heroes were out calling for sacrifices.

It was never my job to pressure anyone into anything, but I couldn't very well sit passively by and stupidly watch my wife act against her own best interest, so I put some pressure into it. I also tried to talk my children in Norway out of taking the vaccine, but they all took at least one shot. The social pressure to act like a hero was so intense that they ignored my warnings. Facts and logic simply don't matter in the eyes of the morally righteous, and a lot of people caved under pressure, including my three children in Norway.

It's regrettable that I wasn't able to prevent my children from taking the vaccine. But there was nothing more I could have done. Hopefully, they're not so stupid that they keep taking the shots, and I remain hopeful that nature will clean out the poison and restore everybody's health once people quit taking the boosters.

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