Anon Archived The Cold Calculations America's Leaders Will Have to Make Before Reopening. How many deaths would be acceptable to you! (nytimes.com)
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[–] 23541901? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
You're willing to sacrifice the general good of 365,000,000 to save the lives of 18 people. That's about .00000005% of the population. That's not rational thinking.
[–] 23545685? ago
My point is that it's not, never was, an argument about numbers. It's about life and lives. A tricky idea. Religion and philosophy struggle with this. Not sure how to get it right. Or even how to test for right. Bio prof I had in school used to say to us, cynical freshmen and sophomores, when you think a life isn't worth living, why not ask some of those people who have genetic deficit or horrible disease, what do they want. I suspect this isn't a bad way to go about it. I'm cynical of the whole calculus of lives and jobs b/c I'm not persuaded that the jobs are coming back. I know that the lives lost aren't.
And, so as my friend once said to me: You take my money, well I suppose I can earn some more. Take my house? Well, that would be a bit more difficult to replace, but I suppose I could do it. Take my wife? There are other fish in the sea. But, waste my time?
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