INTERVIEW
"No way we we shut indefinitely for a disease," had claimed André Comte-Sponville on April 19 in Europe the morning 1. The author of Little treatise of the great virtues (Threshold) was particularly alerted to the risks of prolonged deprivation of liberty: "We must defend our freedom!".
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"Not all dead are created equal"
Saturday, almost a month after the deconfinement, André Comte-Sponville returns to his rant, at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet. "Some have concluded, wrongly, that I wanted the elderly to be left without care. There is obviously no question of it! But at the same time, confinement poses terrible problems: we are told of an economic crisis even more serious than that of 1929, that worries me for the fate of the young people of today ", he explains.
"I dared to say that all human beings are equal in law and in dignity, but that all the dead are not equal. I think that it is sadder to die at 20 or 30 years, than to die at 68 years (his age, note ) or 90 ", continues the philosopher, who adds that the Covid-19" mainly killed old people, people my age ".
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"I dared to say that I was more worried about the future of my children and young people in general, than of my almost 70-year-old health. Sometimes we are shocked and it is not very serious", concluded André Comte-Sponville.