Two wrongs do not make a right: Bullets

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• Watching and listening to the news from the United States, an idea that stays in my head is what I was taught as a child: 'Two wrongs do not make a right'. Of course, that can develop into: 'Three wrongs do not make a right', etcetera.

• In general, I suppose it can be assumed and deduced that the United States is more associated with racism than Canada, historically. But there have been at least several documented incidents within the Metropolitan Vancouver region of racism against Asians and/or perceived Asians this pandemic. 

• Not to read like an academic snob or intellectual elitist, but in my humble opinion, this is a reason why (not the only reason) a national government withholds certain intelligence information from the public.

 • There are certain persons in western society that do not intellectually separate the supposed acts of a government (s) from the ethnic group (s) associated with that national government. Many Asian persons in this region are not from the People's Republic of China and are not communists, or are even sympathizers, yet some ignorant, closed-minded people, in this region, and in each western society will not make the distinction, and therefore, racist, ethnic persecution can occur.

• Galatians 3: 28: English Standard Version 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

• 1 Corinthians 12: 12-13 English Standard Version 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[d] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. d 1 Corinthians 12:13 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

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