Letter to the editor: Man has the inherent right to fashion his own destiny

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Modern Western society traces its origins to the British and American Enlightenments, the founding precept of which was the startling notion that a man has the inherent right to fashion his own destiny. Following the emergence of representative governments, fashionable elitists began demanding that people surrender their liberties in favor of a greater good. The central idea in these pretentious pronouncements was that these thinkers were so gifted in terms of wisdom and talent they could order a man’s life much better than he could and that these superior beings would, with enough money and power, cure all diseases, eliminate poverty and put an end to war.

A recent letter to the editor of The Reflector championed the belief that those who disagreed with her were “ignorant” and that nature would eliminate them through survival of the fittest. Preferring a herd mentality to herd immunity, she is no doubt unaware that the majority of new COVID-19 cases are among the vaccinated. Perhaps one of her friends will mention this to her.

Thomas Higdon, 

Vancouver