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Bein\u2019 born is craps. How we live is poker<\/em>. <\/strong>Doc Holliday<\/p>\n

$\"sparrow\"$ <\/a>Of the dozens of novelists whose books I have read over the years, Mary Doria Russell is one of my least likely favorites. I\u2019m not a big science fiction fan (I much prefer mysteries), but her debut novels The Sparrow <\/em>and Children of God<\/em>, about a Jesuit missionary expedition in outer space (you can\u2019t beat Catholics in space!) are both beautifully written and thought-provoking. Dreamers of the Day<\/em>, set in Egypt during the post-World War One partitioning of Palestine, is much better than I expected it would\u00a0be. And I\u2019ve avoided her most recent novels, Doc<\/em> and Epitaph<\/em>, which follow Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers through late nineteenth-century Dodge City and Tombstone, for quite a while since I\u2019ve never been a fan of Wild West fiction. But a recent reread of Dreamers of the Day<\/em> reminded me of what a wonderful writer Russell is; I was looking for a new novel, so Doc<\/em> and Epitaph<\/em> it is. I highly recommend \u00a0them. $\"doc\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

Doc<\/em> is set in 1878 Dodge City where the genteel and consumptive dentist John Henry \u201cDoc\u201d Holliday finds himself scratching out a living as a card shark by night and a sometimes-dentist for cowboys who have never seen a toothbrush by day. A Northern-educated Southern gentleman who headed west hoping that the dry Plains air might be good for his lungs, Doc finds himself in a violent world where life means little and in which most of his acquaintances can barely read, let alone appreciate his conversational references to Vergil and Dostoevsky. One exception is Morgan Earp, the youngest of three Earp brothers in town, who is a policeman along with his older brother Wyatt. Wyatt can barely read, but Doc happily loans Morgan favorite volumes from the library he brought with him from Georgia, including Crime and Punishment<\/em> and Oliver Twist<\/em>.<\/p>\n

One morning Morgan is in Doc\u2019s dentist office as Doc extracts several teeth from a chloroformed Wyatt, Doc and Morgan discuss the novels Morgan is reading. $\"holliday\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n

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Doc<\/strong>: Morgan, how are you and Mr. Dickens getting along?<\/li>\n
Morgan<\/strong>: I like him better than Dostoevsky. Oliver Twist reminds me of Wyatt when he was a kid.<\/li>\n
Doc<\/strong>: You met Mr. Fagin yet?<\/li>\n
Morgan<\/strong>: Yeah. Ain\u2019t made up my mind about him. He\u2019s good to feed all those boys, but he\u2019s teaching them to be pickpockets too. That don\u2019t seem right.<\/li>\n
Doc<\/strong>: But that is just what makes Fagin interestin\u2019. Raskolnikoff, too. Fagin does his good deed with a bad purpose in mind, but the boys are still fed. Raskolnikoff kills the old woman, but he wants to use her money to improve society. As Monsieur Balzac asked, May we not do a small evil for the sake of accomplishin\u2019 a great good?<\/li>\n
Morgan<\/strong>: I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s still an evil.<\/li>\n
Doc<\/strong>: And yet, that seems to be the principle behind the crucifixion. Sacrifice the Son, redeem humanity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n $\"poster\"$ <\/a>And there, in a dentist office in dusty, dirty Dodge City, is the heart of one of the greatest quandaries in ethics. Do the ends ever justify the means? Is it ever morally permissible to act immorally in the attempted achievement of a great moral good?<\/p>\n
Philosophers love this stuff. The other day when I tried to get a colleague and friend from the English department to choose whether she would choose to support our\u00a0Providence Friars basketball team or the University of Virginia Cavaliers (UVA is her beloved alma mater) if they played in the Final Four, she asked \u201cIs this one of those philosophy games where you give someone completely unrealistic hypotheticals and then force them to make a choice?\u201d She undoubtedly had heard philosophy puzzles such as<\/p>\n
Suppose an out-of-control train is running down the tracks directly at a bus full of 30 people stalled on the track. You have the opportunity to redirect the train to another track where one person is stalled in a car on the track. $\"trolley\"$ <\/a>If you don\u2019t pull the switch to redirect the train, thirty people will die. If you do, one person will die and thirty people\u2019s lives will be saved. Do you pull the switch?<\/strong><\/p>\n
To complicate matters, suppose that the one person on the second track is a brilliant scientist who is on the edge of discovering a cure for cancer. Does that make a difference? What if he or she is a homeless person? You get the point.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, non-philosophers don\u2019t always enjoy playing such hypothetical games (by the way, my colleague said she would cheer for UVA, which almost ended our friendship instantly). But the issues raised by Morgan and Doc\u2019s conversation still hold. $\"c$ <\/a>Was it morally permissible for Raskolnikov to murder the useless old miserly woman in the interest of distributing the millions of rubles she was hoarding to hungry and needy people? Does Fagin\u2019s feeding of dozens of hungry children lose its positive moral strength when we find out that he is training them to be pickpockets and becoming rich in the process?<\/p>\n
Many philosophers and theologians have noted that in an unpredictable world filled with evil, no one\u2019s hands are ever morally pure\u2014regardless of their intentions. Doc and Morgan\u2019s conversation moves in this direction.<\/p>\n
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Doc<\/strong>: We\u2019re none of us born into Eden. World\u2019s plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what\u2019s the best way to play a bad hand?<\/li>\n
Morgan<\/strong>: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.<\/li>\n
Doc<\/strong>: Infinitely sad, but damnably true. Bein\u2019 born is craps, but how we live is poker<\/em>. The question is how to play a bad hand well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The great Stoic philosopher Epictetus could not have said it better: \u201cFor this is your business, to play well the part you are given; but choosing it belongs to another.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n
But during this first week of\u00a0Easter, I would be remiss if I did not return for a moment to Doc\u2019s characterization of the events of Good Friday and Easter: \u201cThat seems to be the principle behind the crucifixion. Sacrifice the Son, redeem humanity.\u201d $\"hyacinth\"$ <\/a>Maybe, but something tells me that a utilitarian number-crunching calculus is not the motivating factor behind Easter. At the heart of the story is radical love\u2014God responds to our flawed human condition by becoming one of us, taking on everything that defines us including pain, injustice, suffering, and death. The new life of Easter emerges from the worst that our world can offer, just as the hyacinths are poking their heads out of the seemingly dead grass in my front yard. No matter the hand we\u2019re dealt, that\u2019s the way to play it.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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