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I wonder if you'd think the same if it was your kid (or you yourself) in that position. It's easy to take the pragmatic asshole position when it's not your skin

I wonder if you'd think the same if it was your kid (or you yourself) in that position. It's easy to take the pragmatic asshole position when it's not your skin in the game. It boggles the mind that people think like this in this day and age.

hycaria 9y ago
It's been published a few times over the past few days that healthcare professionnals often have lower expectancies towards medicine especially during end of life etc. So I guess I would actually think the same indeed.
- Amygaz 9y ago
  There is a difference between current days 70yo oncologist with cancer, and a 30yo proud parent. As futile as it would be, before I had a child, I thought that in the event of a end-of-humanity catastrophe, I would get as close to the source as possible and admire the end. Now with a kid, I am going to hold the fort has long as possible, cook my own hand and serve it, just it case this isn't the end.
  - hycaria 9y ago
    Nope, such testimonies even exist in 30 yo. It's not a matter of having children (and I firmly believe you can have children without becoming unreasonable on the way, even if having children often denotes of complete disregard for the world's state over one's egoistic interests but that's another problem), just having seen enough biology at work...
Spivak 9y ago
This is really just a corollary of the fact that it's easy to spend other people's money. Which itself is a corollary that people are selfish. No admonishment, it's just part of being human. A survey of people who stand to benefit from society paying for an expensive treatment isn't exactly the most objective.