“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