The Daily Stoic - You Have to Care About the Most Vulnerable

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

"By now, you’ve probably seen the viral CNN clip of the woman heading to church in Ohio. Aren’t you worried about being exposed to COVID-19, the reporter asks? No, she says confidently, I am bathed in Jesus’s blood. But aren’t you worried about exposing other people? No, she says, angrily. I go to Wal-Mart everyday. I go to the grocery store. Those people could infect me."Ryan talks about how a Stoic looks at the idea of flattening the curve, and why the lockdowns are so important.***If you enjoyed today’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. You have to care about the most vulnerable. By now, you've probably seen the CNN clip of the woman heading to church in Ohio. Aren't you worried about being exposed to COVID-19, the reporter asks? No, she says confidently, I am bathed in Jesus's blood. But aren't you worried about exposing other people?

No, she says angrily. I go to Walmart every day. I go to the grocery store. Those people could infect me. Now, the problem with these comments is not simply that nowhere did Jesus promise to protect anyone from getting sick. Think of all the sincere and wonderful Christians who perished in the black death from small pox, from typhus, from AIDS, and from countless other pestilences. There's a reason churches were closed when the plagues hit the ancient world and again during the Spanish flu. The real problem, and this woman is by no means alone in this, just look at the photos

on people on beaches in Florida, just look at the photos on people on beaches in Florida, we're in parks all over the country, it's that these people seem to think only about whether they can get sick. A stoke is rational enough to look at the numbers and realize that most of us are likely to survive the coronavirus if we do in fact get it. Most cases are very mild. If you're a healthy, relatively young person, chances are you're going to be fine. Who knows? Maybe believing in Jesus will insulate you further. But that's not why we're locked down, why we've inflicted trillions of dollars of losses to the global economy in an effort to flatten the curve.

We're doing those things to protect the most vulnerable among us people for whom the mortality rate is much much higher It's to protect people with pre-existing conditions people battling cancer people who are recovering from a lung transplant People with only one kidney Remember what Marcus really has said what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee a Society that is callous or indifferent to the weak and the vulnerable destroys itself. A society that betrays its elders, even if those elders have been indifferent and callous themselves, betrays itself. The fruit of this life-markus, the realist wrote, was good character and acts for the common good. When we take actions, we have to always think, what would happen if everyone did this? What are the costs of my decisions

on other people? What risks am I externalizing? Is this really what a person with good character and a concern for others would do? Jesus said to love thy neighbor as thyself, the still looks would have agreed with that. And they would have said it's your duty to protect your neighbor to help them however you can.

In fact, this is a sacred duty. And there's nothing more admirable and virtuous than a person who takes it seriously and nothing less Christian or less stoic than blowing it off. Thanks for listening to the Daily Stoic Podcast if you could leave us a review in iTunes it helps a great deal.

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