Covid and morality

If I had been the devil, I would have created the covid. Because I don't know anyone who got vaccinated for an immoral reason. Everyone got vaccinated for preserving their ability, not to enjoy, but to perform their duties: To continue earning for your family, to be able to travel to look after your dependants, sometimes, to conform to the conspiracy theory that you would "stop transmission" and not be a danger to others, and in very few cases that I know, with the hope to protect your own health, which is of course not immoral at all, but not as altruistic as the majority of people's motivation to get vaccinated.

Now, if you set-up conditions that force people to harm themselves out of their higher, altruistic ideal, that is a definition of torture.

Covid has been a mass torture of humanity, a devilish enterprise.

We should not abandon morality. A person who acted out of goodwill should never regret her action, whatever the cost.

But we must understand that intelligence and morality are weapons at the service of each-other. Being moral is not an excuse for not being intelligent, and being intelligent is not an excuse for not being moral. How we make these two forces protect and save each-other is the most difficult work, the work of becoming human.