“A revocable corona dictatorship is not a solution. We have to weigh up, even at the cost of people dying. ‘Life is not the highest of goods,” says Schiller in the ‘Bride of Messina’. He’s right. The greatest of goods is freedom. ‘Freedom with dignity,’ the President of the Bundestag would add. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.”
This is what Alexander Gauland, parliamentary head of the “Alternative für Deutschland” (AfD), said at the end of his speech in the German Bundestag today. He contradicts himself. First, he speaks of the weighing of interests, only to then have made a decision: Freedom stands above life.
In this sense, every driver on the highway may kill other people, every doctor may kill patients for research purposes and every Islamist may kill innocent citizens in the name of religion. This idea leads straight to death.
“Unevenly given are the goods of life”, it says in Schiller’s ‘Bride of Messina’, too. Alexander Gauland doesn’t seem to be the brightest of all.
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Vienna Calling 