During the previous week, three names were on the front pages of the media: Ebola, Teresa (more often "the infected auxiliary") and finally, displacing the pandemic and the generous professional who volunteered to care for a sick person, a mythical name, Excálibur, came to the forefront, backed by 270,000 signatures.

From that moment on, the 4,000 people affected by Ebola became secondary characters or extras in the movie. The comments about Teresa, forgetting the generosity of the auxiliary became reproaches for alleged imprudence in following hospital protocols. The rain, already a media storm, intensified forgetting other names than those of the dog while shouting the alleged political or administrative responsible.

Once again, what was important once again took a back seat, and hundreds of thousands of signatures that could have called for decisive solidarity action to eradicate the pandemic by urging governments and pharmaceutical multinationals to change their approach to solidarity with the forgotten sick, were concentrated on the defense of an animal.

We commented on these contradictions during the last class of ethics while facing the importance of always having a scale of values to act with rectitude when deciding. The youngest student of the group exposed his indignation at the triviality of claiming the life of a dog over health safety and at the media frivolity that offers unequal news for its importance almost on the same level: the discussion on the sacrifice of a dog and the fact that a woman in solidarity is struggling between life and death along with the other four thousand affected by Ebola.

Undoubtedly, our society, its culture and the media that feed and condition it, together with the unmentionable economic interests, have managed to deform the consciences of citizens, spreading a relativistic pandemic that denaturalizes the most basic ethical values.

When King Arthur died, one of the legends says that Excalibur, his magic sword, was thrown to the bottom of the lake where the lady Nimue lived, and that before submerging, a hand covered with white silk caught it, guarding it under its waters. The superstition among some Celts of throwing objects into lakes to pray for luck is attributed to this legendary tale.

His namesake, the dog mythologized by animalists, New Age ideology and media superficiality, is dead. His burial may serve to resurrect a deeper humanistic training in the classrooms that allows, like the ancient Greek philosophers, to replace the current uniformitarian mythology with a new rationality inspired by evangelical sources. Good challenge in our classrooms and for the pluralistic presence of Christians of consistent ethical temperament in all public forums. The youngest student of Ethics is sample good candidate.