“Even if it were true that a hundred persons would experience more pleasure from torturing one person than that person would experience pain (in some dreadful utilitarian calculus), such an action would be an abomination. The person is never subordinate to the common good in an instrumental way. Persons are not means but ends, because of the God in Whom they live and Who lives in them.”
Michael Novak, Free Persons and the Common Good
In my latest National Post column I contemplate the odd spectacle of Gerald Butts fleeing a burning PMO denying there’s a fire.
“For Fools Admire, but Men of Sense Approve”
Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism” in Essay on Man and Other Poems
In my latest Loonie Politics column I welcome the crowded field of contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, because somewhere in the field they might be able to find a candidate whose policies are not berserk and who actually seems to like America.
In my latest National Post column I ask, regarding the Liberals’ SNC-Lavalin mess, how so many people go into politics with such good intentions and high ideals and so quickly become typical mindless partisan swamp-dwellers.