Govt. must be about the moral, ethical, legal

Jun 25, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

Why it is that followers can be blinded to the truth? Is it because, as the poet Thomas Gray suggested, ignorance is bliss and knowledge is misery? Recently, the attacks on the Opposition Leader as it relates to his critique of the Sputnik vaccination seem to provide the answer. Not only are these attacks spawned from a camp which some believe has questionable moral practices on the one end of the continuum, but also these campers may now be working themselves towards the other end of intellectual bankruptcy. These attacks are from those who ignore the matter at hand. They ignore the Opposition Leader’s stance on the ethical, legal, and moral. Naturally, the mention of either the ethical, legal, or moral will raise the ire of some. They will bring up red herrings such as the issue of election fraud, which I may concede, but I will ask them to stay on point. The point is the jab.
From the ethical perspective, the government is asking its citizens to take a vaccine that was not approved by an accrediting body such as WHO and allegedly rejected by a few countries. In addition, the vaccine, at the time of initial distribution, did not pass scientific scrutiny. The ethics also lean toward the act of giving citizens a vaccine with a questionable chain of custody and purchased for an astronomical cost. The ethics also lean on whether citizens should partake in an act that the leaders themselves do not indulge.
From the legal angle, all reasonable citizens reserve the right to question the government’s purchasing practices in the dead of night and from questionable characters. The ordinary citizen should insist that the acquisition of goods and services be above board. Why should the people’s business be conducted with those whose backgrounds are entangled in international criminal law? The present intellectual architects know about the legal issues centered on fraud, bribery, and corruption. Why would they engage in actions that would have questionable appearances?
From the moral perspective, the question is whether a government shamelessly uses its power and the purse to dictate social outcomes. Moral behaviour theory and reasoning guide us here. The identity of members of an organisation is inextricably linked. It is difficult to tease apart the identity of followers from the organisation’s purpose, raison d’être, and its values. Organisations are moral agents whose outcomes are envisioned and evident through deliberate actions via values, purpose, practices, and processes. Governments are organisations.
Those who currently serve in the government are obligated to envision what is moral, right, and just. The country’s current custodians should know that the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. They should not expect the people to settle for just this.

Sincerely,
Les Archer

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