Euripides, Hecuba (translation E.P. Coleridge)
TALTHYBIUS
Lady, thou art bent on making mine a double meed of tears in pity for thy child; for now too as I tell the sad tale a tear will wet my eye, as it did at the tomb when she was dying.
All Achaea's host was gathered there in full array before the tomb to see thy daughter offered; and the son of Achilles took Polyxena by the hand and set her on the top of the mound, while I stood near; and a chosen band of young Achaeans followed to hold thy child and prevent her struggling. Then did Achilles' son take in his hands a brimming cup of gold and poured an offering to his dead sire, making a sign to me to proclaim silence throughout the Achaean host. So I stood at his side and in their midst proclaimed, "Silence, ye Achaeans! hushed be the people all! peace! be still! "Therewith I hushed the host. Then spake he, "Son of Peleus, father mine, accept the offering I pour thee to appease thy spirit, strong to raise the dead; and come to drink the black blood of a virgin pure, which I and the host are offering thee; oh! be propitious to us; grant that we may loose our prows and the cables of our ships, and, meeting with prosperous voyage from Ilium, all to our country come." So he; and all the army echoed his prayer. Then seizing his golden sword by the hilt he drew it from its scabbard, signing the while to the picked young Argive warriors to hold the maid. But she, when she was ware thereof, uttered her voice and said: "O Argives, who have sacked my city! of my free will I die; let none lay hand on me; for bravely will I yield my neck. Leave me free, I do beseech; so slay me, that death may find me free; for to be called a slave amongst the dead fills my royal heart with shame." Thereat the people shouted their applause, and king Agamemnon bade the young men loose the maid. So they set her free, as soon as they heard this last command from him whose might was over all. And she, hearing her captors' words took her robe and tore it open from the shoulder to the waist, displaying a breast and bosom fair as a statue's; then sinking on her knee, one word she spake more piteous than all the rest, "Young prince, if 'tis my breast thou'dst strike, lo! here it is, strike home! or if at my neck thy sword thou'lt aim, behold! that neck is bared."
Then he, half glad, half sorry in his pity for the maid, cleft with the steel the channels of her breath, and streams of blood gushed forth; but she, e'en in death's agony, took good heed to fall with maiden grace, hiding from gaze of man what modest maiden must. Soon as she had breathed her last through the fatal gash, each Argive set his hand to different tasks, some strewing leaves o'er the corpse in handfuls, others bringing pine-logs and heaping up a pyre; and he, who brought nothing, would hear from him who did such taunts as these, "Stand'st thou still, ignoble wretch, with never a robe or ornament to bring for the maiden? Wilt thou give naught to her that showed such peerless bravery and spirit?"
Euripides’ Hecuba is about many things: social and familial disintegration during times of war and crisis; catastrophic religious ritual; cascading moral and ethical failure; noble revenge. If you have not read this tragedy, then read it. It is one of the cures for COVID.
Among these various themes is a central idea: in the face of collective evil—in the collective absence of morality and ethics—in which a community actively participates in wrongs (in this case the human sacrifice of Polyxena) nobility and virtue become acts of overt resistance. Polyxena must succumb to this inverted moral order, but as a consequence she emphatically highlights how a proper moral and ethical society ought to behave. Her sacrifice is a rejection of the evil of a corrupted social condition.
In our current moment politicians and a vast swath of the population, who have been demoralized by unethical abuses of nudging, are actively promoting and employing vaccine passports. As I have written elsewhere this system of discrimination and medical apartheid is a form of Evil. They are complicit in the Banality of Evil.
To quote Hannah Arendt:
For when I speak of the banality of Evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period.
Remember, there are degrees of Evil. Arendt was gesturing to only one of the most marked degrees, but to all of our detriment our governments have drawn a through line from the current human rights violations to the horrible atrocities of our past.
We must call out Evil when we see it, and vaccine passports are Evil.
Those who advocate for them are Evil.
Those who ask to see them are Evil.
Those who use them are Evil.
I am not being hyperbolic; individuals who cannot see or do not see the moral and ethical hazard of VACCINE PASSPORTS are profoundly dangerous. That they are blind to this hazard suggests that in other facets of their life they have no underlying or foundational moral or ethical beliefs.
That they have uncritically adopted the Gesundheitpass, not understanding or knowing its origins, is an emphatic indictment of their complicity in the establishment of an immoral STATE.
Just because you collectively participate in EVIL, that does not absolve you or suddenly make your immoral actions right or good. It only means that your demoralization due to fear and hysteria is complete.
You are no longer a person.
You have been weaponized by an unjust and harmful STATE.
It is easy to commit wrong when you are celebrated and supported when you commit it.
A few words on EVIL
The Wiktionary
Evil: from Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂upélos (compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos), diminutive of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wap- (“treat badly”) (compare Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-i, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”)),[3] or alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).
Online Etymological Dictionary
Old English yfel (Kentish evel) "bad, vicious, ill, wicked," from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (source also of Old Saxon ubil, Old Frisian and Middle Dutch evel, Dutch euvel, Old High German ubil, German übel, Gothic ubils), from PIE *upelo-, from root *wap- "bad, evil" (source also of Hittite huwapp- "evil").
In Old English and other older Germanic languages other than Scandinavian, "this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike or disparagement" [OED]. Evil was the word the Anglo-Saxons used where we would use bad, cruel, unskillful, defective (adj.), or harm (n.), crime, misfortune, disease (n.). In Middle English, bad took the wider range of senses and evil began to focus on moral badness. Both words have good as their opposite. Evil-favored (1520s) meant "ugly." Evilchild is attested as an English surname from 13c.
The adverb is Old English yfele, originally of words or speech. Also as a noun in Old English, "what is bad; sin, wickedness; anything that causes injury, morally or physically." Especially of a malady or disease from c. 1200. The meaning "extreme moral wickedness" was one of the senses of the Old English noun, but it did not become established as the main sense of the modern word until 18c.
As a noun, Middle English also had evilty. Related: Evilly. Evil eye (Latin oculus malus) was Old English eage yfel. The jocular notion of an evil twin as an excuse for regrettable deeds is by 1986, American English, from an old motif in mythology.
evil (n.)
"anything that causes injury, anything that harms or is likely to harm; a malady or disease; conduct contrary to standards of morals or righteousness," Old English yfel.
Oxford English Dictionary
Forms: Old English–Middle English yfel (in inflexions yf(e)l-), (Middle English ifel, Middle English efel, yfell, Middle English ywel(l, Middle English ufel, Middle English uvel(e, Middle English ivel, (Middle English ȝevel, Middle English ivil), Middle English–1500s evel(l(e, (Middle English ewelle, hevelle, 1500s ewil, yell), Middle English–1500s evill(e, -yl(l(e, yvel(l(e, (1500s yevill), Middle English– evil.(Show Less)
Frequency (in current use): Show frequency band information
Etymology: Middle English uvel (ü), Old English yfel = Old Saxon uƀil, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch evel (Dutch euvel), Old High German ubil, upil (German übel), Gothic ubils < Old Germanic *uƀilo-z; usually referred to the root of up, over; on this view the primary sense would be either ‘exceeding due measure’ or ‘overstepping proper limits’.
The form evel , whence the modern form descends, appears in Middle English first as west midland and Kentish, but in 15th cent. had become general. The conditions under which early Middle English/i/ or /y/ became /eː/, the antecedent of modern English /iː/, are not clearly determined; the present word and weevil seem to be the only examples in which this change was other than local; obsolete and dialect instances are yeve = ‘give’, leve = ‘live’, easle n. (Other apparent examples are due to Old English forms with eo, resulting < u- or o- umlaut.)
A. adj. The antithesis of good adj., n., adv., and int. in all its principal senses.
In Old English, as in all the other early Germanic languages except Scandinavian, this word is the most comprehensive adjectival expression of disapproval, dislike, or disparagement. In mod. colloquial English it is little used, such currency as it has being due to literary influence. In quite familiar speech the adj. is commonly superseded by bad; the n. is somewhat more frequent, but chiefly in the widest senses, the more specific senses being expressed by other words, as harm, injury, misfortune, disease, etc.
1. Morally depraved, bad, wicked, vicious. Also absol. Obsolete as applied to persons.
2. Doing or tending to do harm; hurtful, mischievous, prejudicial. Of advice, etc.: Misleading. Of an omen, etc.: Boding ill.
I. The adjective used absol. That which is evil.
a. In the widest sense: that which is the reverse of good; whatever is censurable, mischievous, or undesirable. Also with adjective: moral evil, physical evil.
b. What is morally evil; sin, wickedness.
c. What is mischievous, painful, or disastrous.
2. to do evil, †say evil. (In post-inflectional English hardly distinguishable from use of evil adv.) †with evil: with evil intention. †to take in, or to, evil: to take (a thing) ill; also, to be hurt by.
II. A particular thing that is evil.
4. gen. Anything that causes harm or mischief, physical or moral. the social evil: prostitution.
†5. A wrongdoing, sin, crime. Usually plural. Obsolete.
†6. A calamity, disaster, misfortune. Obsolete.
†a. gen. A disease, malady. Obsolete.
b. the Aleppo evil: ‘a disease, which first appears under the form of an eruption on the skin, and afterwards forms into a sort of boil’ ( Penny Cycl. XII. 12/2). †the foul evil: the pox. †the falling evil: = ‘the falling sickness’, epilepsy.
Evil in Aggregate
Note that our current social condition is Evil incarnate. The broad range of definitions for Evil above highlight this.
Covid as a disease is Evil. It works Evil in our bodies.
The outcomes of Covid policy as a mitigation strategy are Evil. They have worked into our society disasters, misfortunes, calamaties, moral and ethical wrongs and harms, depravity and wickedness. Here is just a short list of the Evils that are direct outcomes of COVID Policy:
Rise in suicide and suicidality
Rise in mental health issues, depression, and anxiety
Rise in Obesity
Rise in drug and alcohol abuse
Rise in overdoses from drugs and alcohol
Rise in rape, incest and sexual violence
Rise in sex trafficking
Rise in domestic violence
Rise in divorce
Rise in poverty and homelessness
Rise in negative outcomes from preventable diseases
Lowering of academic achievement
Increased harm against marginalized communities
Lowering in speech, emotional and cognitive development among children
Lowering in credibility in health, governmental and social instituions
Violations of civil and human rights (mobility rights, religious rights, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the employment of medical apartheid)
Rise in social division
Rise in crime (murder and robbery)
Rise in economic discrimination
Rise in misinformation (on all sides)
Rise in familial fragmentation
Rise in media malfeasance
Rise in propaganda and nudging
Rise in Pharmaceutical and Governmental collusion
Rise in bankruptcy
Rise in hate speech
Increased failure of small businesses, restaurants, and cafes
Rise in increasingly authoritarian STATES
Rise in increasingly authoritarian technologies like Digital IDs and vaccine passports (vaccine passports are ALREADY a Chinese style social credit system)
Negation of culturally important events like art festivals, communal events, music, parades, and national events
Rise in violations of informed consent through coercive measures such as job loss and social exclusion.
Individual’s thoughts and behaviours are Evil: Among voters who have a Very Favorable impression of Biden, 51% are in favor of government putting the unvaccinated in “designated facilities,” and 54% favor imposing fines or prison sentences on vaccine critics. REREAD THAT.
At its core Evil is the “overstepping of proper limits.” We have witnessed governments, businesses, schools, pharmaceutical companies, teachers, doctors, “experts,” politicians, employers, employees, friends, neighbours, family members…almost every single entity, institution, and person has actively overstepped what is proper in the face of the Evil of COVID.
But you do not negate one Evil by employing a slew of other Evils.
The COVID Lockdown Policy and the rhetoric around Lockdown and Vaccination were and continue to be EVIL. There is no debate on this. We have ushered in a profound and cascading reverberation of Evil throughout almost every aspect of our society and culture. We employed Evil in an attempt to stop Evil.
We are on the verge of the complete and total collapse of social and civic unions in places like Canada, Austria, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Italy, Greece, California, and Quebec (to name the most obvious). The reasons are clear: people who lack wisdom and intelligence are making policy decisions that are Evil. And a very ignorant population in each of these countries have become so demoralized that they are willing to participate in Evil, so long as they can “get back to Normal,” or what we call the “New Normal.”
The trick: Call Evil “Good” or “Virtuous” or “Proper Behaviour.” Just rebrand Evil. That is all it takes. We call that “Nudging.”
In the current global milieu this is not a fight between Good and Evil, it is a fight between different kinds of Evil and different intensifications of Evil.
There is no Good. “Good” has been nudged and rebranded out of existence.
10 Reasons Vaccine Passports are EVIL and those who use them are EVIL too.
Vaccine Passports create a society that is based on medical apartheid, discrimination, segregation, and division. Past societies that employed similar social policies have always been deemed to be Evil. The current state of things does not alter the moral template of our interpretation of the past or the present. One needs to bar 100s if not 1000s of people from entry to a particular location in order to stop one statistically significant outbreak of COVID (remember, only COVID matters. Nothing else). The social and individual harm due to active occlusion from civil society without any real health benefit is a form of social contagion and is Evil.
Vaccine Passports push unscientific claims as to the efficacy and purpose of vaccines. That the government “nudges” such claims is an assault on the rational mind and a form of Evil. The vaccines neither stop transmission nor preclude infection. Vaxxkarens are just as likely to transmit COVID and become infected as the Informed Consent Crowd. Regardless of Vaccine status everyone will get COVID (I have had it twice, it was less severe than a minor cold). Risk from COVID is age and comorbidity stratified. Vaccine Passports suggest that the vaccinated are without risk while the unvaccinated are at risk and catalyze risk to others. This is LowIQ risk analysis. Vaccine Passports obfuscate proper risk analysis, and thereby induce fear in people who simply have an incredibly low risk from COVID. Check your risk here and situate it within other risks here. My risk of contracting and dying of COVID (unvaxxed) places me somewhere between being mauled to death by dogs and being electrocuted to death by lightning. If I were vaccinated my risk does NOT change in any meaningful way: still between dogs and lightning. If you are vaccinated and believe in their efficacy then why are you participating in a system of social occlusion? Your participation in this incoherent, irrational, and harmful system is Evil.
Vaccine Passports teach children that it is OK to discriminate against people. This is a cultural and social Evil that will have generational impacts and consequences. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
Vaccine Passports have been part and parcel of political mechanisms to marginalize and other citizens. Political leaders have stated outright that Vaccine Passports have no real medical value, but are designed to coerce people into vaccination by limiting their constitutional and human rights. Leaders have done this in spite of scientific evidence that suggests vaccine passports actually DE-INCENTIVIZE vaccination. I will not entertain the idea of vaccination in a polity that employs a vaccine passport, and even if I had been vaccinated, I would NOT have downloaded a QR code and used it. I will not actively participate in a system that is based on discrimination. If you participate in Evil, you are Evil.
Vaccine Passports violate Informed Consent. It is illegal and a violation of human rights for medical practitioners, government officials, and businesses to employ coercion in order to compel an individual into informed consent. Canada is clear that informed consent must be obtained before any vaccination is given. Informed Consent has an ancient and long history, and at its core are the following conditions: A patient's informed consent requires adequate information, capacity to decide, and absence of coercion. Informed consent is incorporated into a process of agreement between a patient and a physician called "shared decision making." Under normal conditions informed consent is an agreement between the physician and their patient. Governments, businesses, and other institutions had little to no role to play in this private deliberation between a doctor and patient. With the creation of the Biomedical STATE in which governments, businesses, commercial zones, media, schools, and domestic spaces have become medicalized, informed consent has now been expanded beyond the private deliberations of a doctor and patient to include nearly all social and political institutions. To that end any form of punitive measures to compel vaccination by institutions—in this case, Vaccine Passports—is a violation of informed consent. It is impossible for an individual to consent to a medical treatment under these conditions. Violations of Informed Consent is a species of Evil.
Vaccine Passports are being employed as a Trojan Horse in order to hasten the development and employment of Digital Identifications. There has been no public policy debate as to the ethical and moral implications of Digital Identification, and its obvious slippery slope into a Social Credit System. The DAICC or the Digital ID and Authentication Council of Canada has stated explicitly that “COVID has accelerated Canadians’ demand for digital ID.” How does an organization that is actively working to implement a Digital ID come to this conclusion of mass Canadian support for a Digital ID? It does it through a survey that manipulated the respondents’ answers. The methodology of the survey is laughable. Note that a restructuring of the entirety of Canadian society and the very idea of privacy itself are based on a survey of a 1000 people, haphazardly and irrationally chosen. A vaccine passport system creates the necessary infrastructure to implement a Digital ID system. The Vaccine Passport is ALREADY being used as a variation on a Social Credit System. Social Credit systems are Evil. While there may be a utility to Digital IDs, there must be a robust, public, and thoughtful conversation about their application. Instead, the Vaccine Passport has allowed for governments to push through Digital IDs without any democratic oversight. Thales Digital Identity and Security has said emphatically that Vaccine Passports are precursors to Digital ID Wallets, “offering citizens unparalleled convenience and security.” Frankly, governmental institutions and Digital Identification companies have little to no credibility due to the total and complete failure of governmental COVID policy and the employment of divisive technologies in the form of Vaccine Passports. That COVID is being used surreptitiously by unethical individuals to create an administrative super-state that already is applying the ethos of a social credit system to citizens in Canada and elsewhere is…wait for it…Evil.
The othering and marginalization of the pro-informed consent crowd by means of vaccine passports has resulted in diminished discourse and discussion on topics that ought to have as broad a selection of voices and viewpoints as possible. People who see the moral and ethical harm of vaccine passports are being occluded from spaces by those who employ them, when those very people who employ them ought to hear and listen to why individuals might think vaccine passports are wrong. This occlusion of a free discourse of ideas in a free society results in further division and lack of empathy. The silencing of view point diversity—especially points of view on social and cultural morals and ethics—is a species of Evil. Generally, we see such totalitarian systems activated in societies that have inclined towards moral and ethical absolutism and despotism. Historically speaking we understand that these societies were Evil. Yet, we are currently turning a blind eye to the Evil taking place in front of us.
Vaccine Passports are a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Values. Read it for yourself. You do not need a lawyer, or judge, or human rights council to tell you how to interpret this very clear and concise document. It was written in a way so that EVERYONE can know their rights and freedoms. Currently, legal charges are being filed against the Vaccine Passports because they violate the Canadian Charter of Rights and Values. Vaccine Passports violate the fundamental rights and freedoms of every Canadian. This violation of foundational human rights is Evil.
The active participation in the Vaccine Passport is Evil. Hannah Arendt states the following in a letter to Gerhard Scholem:
You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never “radical,” that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface. It is “thought-defying,” as I said, because thought tries to reach some depth, to go to the roots, and the moment it concerns itself with evil, it is frustrated because there is nothing. That is its “banality.” Only the good has depth that can be radical.
It is the commonplace participation in mundane and banal evil that rots and contaminates society. Each and every time you use your Vaccine Passport or every time you ask to see another’s Vaccine Passport, you are simply lessening your moral and ethical state of being, until all you have become is an empty shell of a morally defunct vessel of Evil.
Vaccine Passports have so harmed the social fabric of society that the STATES which employ it have lost all moral and ethical credibility. This loss of moral and ethical credibility may have catastrophic outcomes on society. We will witness a series of other harms that all follow upon Vaccine Passports (we already are). Individuals will become even more complicit in these future harms. A free and peaceful society is a fragile thing. It is not something that ought to be assumed as a norm. In fact, a free and peaceful society is the exception that proves the rule. The adoption of Vaccine Passports is the end of a free and peaceful society. It is the first step to that other form of society which by and large has made up the history of humanity. There is always a reckoning for those who are complicit in the Evil. Evil breeds Evil breeds Evil.
Vaccine Passports are EVIL and those who use them are EVIL too.
They are complicit
They are complicit in medical apartheid.
They are complicit in discrimination.
They are complicit in the violation of constitutional rights.
They are complicit in the demonization of those who disagree with them.
They are complicit in promoting the moral and ethical hazards of the biomedical STATE.
They are complicit in adopting an incoherent narrative based on fear and hysteria.
They are complicit in elevating leaders and “experts” who lacked the wisdom and enlightenment to lead humanity through this moment of crisis.
They are complicit in the massive rise in rape, incest, sexual violence, domestic abuse, alcohol and drug abuse, obesity, educational deprivation, poverty, homelessness, and child abuse, not to mention the total rending of the social fabric caused by Lockdown Policy.
Stop being complicit.
Stop being Evil.
Apologize.
Mandatory Listening.
Most people do not understand or care about medical ethics. Take some time and listen to a conversation that filters the current COVID narrative through the lens of Medical Ethics. A virus does not negate moral and ethical behaviour