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Sylvain Tesson: "Are we really passionate about freedom?"

2020-11-02T19:33:53.310Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - We, demanding citizens, aspire at the same time to live free and to be mothered, remarks the author of La Panthère des neiges (Gallimard).


LE FIGARO.

- France and Europe "reconfigure" for a few weeks.

A virus has reduced existence in a few months, turned off city lights, slows the economy, shook the hospital.

What do you think of these strange hours?

Sylvain TESSON.

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The virus has not mowed down humanity.

The quarantine measures, they shake it.

This inspires a question: is the response to the virus proportionate to its threat?

What are we protecting?

The interest of life or its duration?

One is not accountable for the other!

There are those who think that the value of life is more in its length than in its substance!

And there are those who want to live fully, even if their health is weakened.

"Longer, even locked up"

say the first!

"Out in the open, despite the risk,"

say the latter.

It's an eternal question: outside or inside?

full blast or formalin?

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Source: lefigaro

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