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Luc Ferry: "Freedom more than life?"

2021-01-27T20:40:48.805Z


CHRONICLE - Deploring the mistakes made by our rulers should not prevent us from recognizing that they were generally right to put, for the first time in history, life above money.


For months now, we have heard the voices of those, more and more numerous, who alert us in the wake of Michel Foucault on the dangers of “hygienist totalitarianism”.

Preferring the ethics of conviction to that of responsibility, our libertarian liberals multiply liberals scandalized by coercive measures, proclaiming loud and clear that the

"virus has made us mad"

, that we are

"infantilized"

, that

"laws exceptions are gradually becoming the norm ”

or that

“ a life that is prolonged, certainly, but wasted, is hardly worth living ”

.

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Our new crusaders of freedom are convinced that without their salutary diatribes, the sheep that we have become will be quite ready to fall gradually into an authoritarian regime.

I doubt it and I believe on the contrary that the reactions of revolt are infinitely more to be feared than voluntary servitude.

I fully understand that one can be exasperated by the finicky rules of confinement,

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Source: lefigaro

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