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The Value of Human Life with Eron Fasser

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The Role of Virtue Ethics in the COVID Crisis

I wonder whether it relates so, you know, this idea that the if you were to be callous about it and say, okay, the people who are dying or older people anyway, they're vulnerable people anyway. Let's just sacrifice them on the altar of the economy. I wonder whether that isn't similar to the person prodding, prodding the the needles in the voodoo doll, or the person taking a nice chunk out of, out of Marilyn Monroe's leg. You know, it's kind of a perniciousness towards people. Yeah. So there's definitely a space for looking at the COVID crisis from the perspective of the virtue ethicist.

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