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Describing sheer abandonment of elder care as “a complicated trade-off” is utterly disgusting.

• CPLX 7y ago
  Did anyone propose that? Do you believe that, in normal circumstances, we should repurpose all money typically spent on primary education and firefighting to go to elder care instead? If you weren’t arguing for that last year then you believe in complicated trade-offs too. The concept of trade-offs is the absolute core basis of all major public policy decisions. It’s also the basic of many personal decisions. If you’re familiar with hospice care or a DNR order then you know that end of life questions have trade-off calculations as well, even within families or between life partners. Pretending this is a binary decision is just nonsensical.
  • mlthoughts2018 7y ago
    > “ Did anyone propose that?” In rereading your post carefully, the answer is yes. You did describe it that way and offer a reason to think it’s not so bad. Doing so is shameful.
  • rsecora 7y ago
    One day youngers will be elders too, and the future youngers will apply the same rules. Marines say "no one left behind", for a reason, because it creates a group... A society. The UK decision smells like eugenics.