How time and value have changed.
Just about a century ago, the captain of the Titanic had to make difficult decisions too. Amazingly, the weak and the most vulnerable weren’t left on board to perish. Was the captain wrong? Would he make the same decision today? Just wondering. Afterall, we still call him a hero.
Honestly, I think that this is the socialist government's reaction to their own broken system. They cripple *everything* about our economy then decide to make the "hard decisions" (killing everyone but THEM) so that we can afford their evil version of "utopia".
Those who had the most to contribute to society's future were saved-- i.e. children, their mothers, and other women who might bear children in the future. Weak, vulnerable, elderly men were left to go down with the ship.
It's also not directly comparable because what happened to the Titanic did not affect societal integrity as a whole. However, if doctors across the country chose to let healthy young men and women die in a pandemic so they could save the nursing home patients, retarded children, elderly multi-drug dependent cardiac cripples, and lunatics, who would rebuild civilization and look after all the others?
It sounds cruel and callous to let such helpless people die, but it is morally right and necessary in the case of a dire emergency.
-ccm
The Captain of the Titanic simply didn’t have the same situation. He wasn’t a doctor for one thing. He didn’t have a mess of sick an dying people. They were all quite healthy (until, of course, they fell into the water and froze or drowned).
Uh huh. So why is it that more First Class men survived than Third Class children?