It will be objected that money cannot be measured against life, as they are incommensurable. Life must always trump business. It is a false dichotomy. Even “mere money” is usually our labor, and therefore our use of life and freedom, often many hours’ worth, in another form. To make a business go bankrupt is to take away that life from those who gave it up, to found and build the business.
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Prudence is a matter of pursuing a correct ordering while avoiding pitfalls. Whatever the motives of public actors now, the principles of the world of last December all point to shutting down economic life with no resolution in view – which is actually not an ordering. What the better and genuinely prudent alternative is, I leave to you and your freedom.