Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and this is my home and I've been spending a lot of time in my home I might add.

I should have been in Hungary or I was supposed to give a speech but of course very few of us are going anywhere.

Although I do go into the radio station to do my radio show every day but here I am at home and this is my weekly fire site chat.

My fire, the side of the fire, my doggy, who is I don't know for whatever reason very alive and awake today I have no idea why he's usually so placid that I have reassured people it's not a stuffed animal but now you really see auto at his prime.

Anyway this is a very rare time in fact unprecedented time certainly in not certainly it's unprecedented I don't know when a certainly any industrialized civilization or even non industrialized has ever gone into lockdown as so many societies have in the world today.

So I want to be before anything else I just want to share with you some thoughts because a lot of people have written in and I said certain things which people are challenging which is perfectly alright you should challenge it's a very good thing then you hear the answer you either find it persuasive or not persuasive but if you don't find it persuasive let me know why.

So I commented in the last fire site chat about a comment made by the governor of New York State Andrew Cuomo and it basically saying if everything I have done in other words shutting down all of New York State if everything I have done saves one life I am happy that's pretty much exactly his words and I thought that that was absurd that is morally absurd it's rationally and morally absurd.

You you are you are causing havoc in millions of people's lives you you are depriving millions of people of an income you are putting people who live alone into solitary confinement and all of that is worth it to save one life.

This is this is it's so preposterous to me that I I I realize we are in an age that doesn't have much wisdom I mean I'm I I have studied moral thought my whole life I have written books on it I I'm certainly capable of being wrong on these matters but I have never met a religious or secular moral philosopher who was ever said that you can.

Deliberately create massive destruction like that to save one life it's as I pointed out no social policy has ever been made that way and I gave the example of speed limits when we in America gone from 55 to 65 miles per hour little to 75 it is known I remember at the time talking about it I know is definitely he's leaving.

I think this discussion might have gotten to him but then look he wants to leave he got a lot of them go one thing you cannot do is force a bulldog to do anything which is why they're known as bulldogs they're very stubborn that's the other door and we're good all right out of any time you want to come back you let me know.

Okay I'm sorry folks sitting next to an empty bed an empty dog that it's sad.

Anyway the speed limit every time it is raised with they know X number of people will die as a result.

So I would ask any of you should we have the speed limit at 30 miles per hour on on highways for example then we will presumably save thousands of lives.

And that's the speed limit that that's that's not jobs that's just the speed limit but of course we don't do that we always ask.

Well every individual is infinitely precious we also ask what is better for the whole society you can't make social policy on what might adversely affect one person.

I don't know why this is not self evident so I won't spend more time on it.

Somebody wrote in a question about that was it on the other sheet it was it about yeah here we go begins with which is sort of a cutie way of putting this question.

The number of people who will die is a factor that impacts whether or not it is appropriate to raise the speed limit.

Don't you think that is why we don't have unlimited speed limits.

Yes that is why we don't have unlimited speed limits what's their point.

It's also why we don't have 30 miles per hour so we have tried to find a sort of happy medium knowing more people will die at 65 or 75 but not allowing unlimited.

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