Whether or not it’s liberals or warriors or just residents of a city criticizing the pandemic response, the lockdowns in Shanghai (which soon may be in Beijing as well) are hurting people. Whether or not they should quietly submit to suffering is a moral question. It’s easy to say “let them suffer,” when you’re not there, or when people you value and love aren’t there. Sometimes I’d also like to consign people with whom I disagree to the dustbin of history, but if the solution to all disagreement is the dustbin, ultimately doesn’t that end with everyone in the dustbin?