Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press.

A bit local defense of fake vaccine IDs, August 23rd, 2021.

Introduction.

It is certainly tempting to simply make the case by saying that a fake pandemic should have

fake papers to accompany it, but that would be too easy, far too glib.

I already have severe critics who struggle with their tendency to be sensorious, and

that would frankly not help.

So I won't start there.

This really is a challenging subject, and so for those of you who want to study it,

more thoroughly, I would refer you to some of the things I've written before on related

and relevant subjects.

Here's something on black markets, and here's a piece on righteous deception, and another

in the propriety of bribing unofficial into doing his job.

Of course it is a sin to take bribes, which would be great wickedness, Exodus 23.8,

Deuteronomy 27.25, but there are occasions where it is not a sin to give one, Proverbs 18.16,

Proverbs 21.14.

And then along comes a piece discussing some of the ramifications of Dreyer's Benedict

option, where all of these issues are in play, and with us now living a lot closer to

them.

So if questions arise in your minds about what I'm going to say below, they might

well be addressed and answered in these places.

So I'm going to sketch where I believe we are in all this, and then I will conclude with

...