Rambert states "man is an idea if he is incapable of love."
I think all man are capable of loving. Therefore, I'm siding with Rieux in that man is not an idea. We see humanity, 6.974 billion people living in the world as of 2011, and if death passed through majority of that number, would one fight for those people or the idea of a person's right to living in the world. I for one would choose to fight for the people who currently live here and not the idea that we should be living because I still have yet to know that.
Rambert says Tarrou is incapable of dying for an idea. Taking man being an idea out of the picture, I think any true man can die for the ones he loves. Tarrou can definitely die for people he cares about, more so than any other man on the street can fight against the plague for the "greater good" of humanity. If everyone came together, not fighting for the idea of man that doesn't exist, and fought for the brothers and sisters around them, wouldn't there have been a chance to combat the illness? So is man an idea? Yes. But is that idea worth fighting for? No. The people who are close to you, and take part in making that idea a whole are the ones worth fighting for.
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