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To: Acton

So kill the old people and give money to young people to save him.


43 posted on 10/14/2012 6:47:22 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: bmwcyle

Yes. From Ezekiel Emmanuel:

The complete lives system discriminates against older people. Age-based allocation is ageism. Unlike allocation by sex or race, allocation by age is not invidious discrimination; every person lives through different life stages rather than being a single age. Even if 25-year-olds receive priority over 65-year-olds, everyone who is 65 years now was previously 25 years. Treating 65-year-olds differently because of stereotypes or falsehoods would be ageist; treating them differently because they have already had more life-years is not.

When implemented, the complete lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated (figure).78 It therefore superficially resembles the proposal made by DALY advocates; however, the complete lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value. Additionally, the complete lives system assumes that, although life-years are equally valuable to all, justice requires the fair distribution of them. Conversely, DALY allocation treats life-years given to elderly or disabled people as objectively less valuable ...

Ultimately, the complete lives system does not create “classes of Untermenschen whose lives and well being are deemed not worth spending money on” but rather empowers us to decide fairly whom to save when genuine scarcity makes saving everyone impossible.


46 posted on 10/14/2012 7:09:03 AM PDT by rlmorel ("It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong." Voltaire)
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