"Obey the law but don't sacrifice your life!" : Comte-Sponville to the youth:

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"Young people who are in good spirits today have a lot of merit", greets André Comte-Sponville, philosopher and ardent defender of individual freedoms, the day after the announcement of an upcoming curfew by Emmanuel Macron to stop the coronavirus epidemic.

Worried about young people "sacrificed" to the health of their elders, the author of the

 addressed them Thursday on Europe 1, wishing them "good luck" for "this difficult period which looms". 

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"Don't let that go!"

"Do not be fooled! Obey the law but do not sacrifice your whole life for the life of your parents and your grandparents. Resist pan-medicalism with correct sanitary conditions and the sanitary order which threatens us", he exclaimed.

The Covid-19 is a "serious problem", acknowledges the philosopher, but "we cannot indefinitely sacrifice freedoms to the health of the most fragile, therefore the oldest". 

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Especially since according to him, the most vulnerable on the scale of a life are not the oldest but on the contrary the youngest.

"I am 68 years old, I am no longer vulnerable to premature death, unemployment or global warming. Giving priority to the elderly represents a reversal of intergenerational solidarity which wants parents to sacrifice themselves for their children."

He adds: "How many generations are we ready to sacrifice?"