Maybe the problem is that those who use the phrase do not even know what it means.
“But of
course, you know, children aren’t supposed to die,” said CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky in an interview with Bret Baier in which he challenged her to call out a Supreme Court Justice for spreading COVID Misinformation.
I can’t
say how many times I have heard someone say “children aren’t supposed to die” –
even people whose scientific or religious knowledge teaches them that is not a
true statement.[i]
And yet, many of us just shake our heads in solemn agreement, as if it is a
universal truth. Well, I ain’t gonna take it anymore. Today I resist.
There is
nothing in our scientific or religious knowledge that tells us that children
aren’t suppose to die. In fact, everything in our ubiquitous learned experience
denies that statement. And yet we make it, and make it, and make it.
What we mean
is that we don’t want to see children suffer and die. We wish to see them live long and prosper. And hopefully that feeling is universally
true for us, one and all. “Children aren’t supposed to die” expresses a yen
within us. Nevertheless, the statement is not true – it is emotional, a
statement or expression of feeling. For persons in places of leadership in religion, science,
health care, and so on to assert such as simple truth is misleading and unhelpful.
“Let me
not see the death of the child.”
“the child
died”
“it is appointed unto men once to die”
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