Consideration of the importance of complete lives also supports modifying the youngest-fi rst principle by prioritising adolescents and young adults over infants (fi gure). Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. Similarly, adolescence brings with it a developed personality capable of forming and valuing long-term plans whose fulfi lment requires a complete life. 77 As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues, “It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies and worse still when an adolescent does”; 78 this argument is supported by empirical surveys. 41,79 Importantly, the prioritisation of adolescents and young adults considers the social and personal investment that people are morally entitled to have received at a particular age, rather than accepting the results of an unjust status quo. Consequently, poor adolescents should be treated the same as wealthy ones, even though they may have received less investment owing to social injustice.
With the state gaining this kind of power, the market for fraud and corruption, for getting rid of undesirables, for punishing dissenters, is tremendous and horrible.
Given Rev. Wright's and Obama's and Michelle's and their friends' distributive, global outlook, this is EXACTLY what they want to have power over.
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