yes - kinda like the decision to abort or not abort - like the mother that was pregnant with, I think 4th child. The father had congenital heart disease, the mother tuberculosis, and the first 3 children all have serious medical problems.
What are the odds that this child will also be sickly, using up valuable medical care?
So chose: 1: abort
2: don't
For those that chose abort - Congratulations.
You just killed Beethoven.
i.e., you may chose the the young adult female/male - who never contribute anything of worth to society - may even be a negative. You may chose death for an elderly person who still has a lot to contribute - or a toddler who would have grown up to contribute something of great worth.
To empiracally chose death because of age is ignorance run amok.
But there's an over abundance of that these days.
In the meantime, perhaps you should arrange not to grow too old - and/or,never get sick.
Not at all. You have 10 people who need ventilators and five ventilators. Five people will die. Who?
It's not making a choice to abort. It is making a choice that so one person can live, someone else cannot.
Age (straw man number 2) is just one of the factors in what would be a brutal decision to have to make, but it would still have to be made.
i.e., you may chose the the young adult female/male - who never contribute anything of worth to society - may even be a negative. You may chose death for an elderly person who still has a lot to contribute - or a toddler who would have grown up to contribute something of great worth.
All true. What is your point, that it is impossible to predict the future with certainty? Whoa! So one does what, exactly, nothing? Two people need a ventilator to live and only one machine is available. YOU tell us the rules for how to decide. First come first served? Available cash? Age? Relationship to Beethoven? What? Seize that moral high ground and fill us in.