Wednesday, March 25, 2020

A call to reason …

… Blind fear of death should not guide policy | Catholic Culture. (Hat tip, Rich Lloret.)

… certainly there are some things worth taking a risk for. As much as we admire bravery in the face of danger, we despise timidity. No doubt you would be safer if you spent your life cowering at home, but what could you accomplish? “A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once,” Shakespeare tells us. To risk nothing is to accomplish nothing.

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