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Well what I meant by others was unrelated/unknown people, especially politicians deciding about "numbers". Sorry I worded it wrong, I am used to seeing a family
by TomMarius 7y ago
Well what I meant by others was unrelated/unknown people, especially politicians deciding about "numbers". Sorry I worded it wrong, I am used to seeing a family as a singular unit. There definitely are people who do not want to try and my goal is not to force treatment on them, but to not allow others (see above) to prevent them from getting that treatment.
- kerkeslager 7y agoOkay, but as far as I know, nobody wants to prevent people from getting life extension treatment if they want it. So I'm not sure why you felt you had to make that point. And again, you said: > So, if that was your grandmother and you had a choice of giving her a 10% chance, you wouldn't? That's a pretty odd way of "wording it wrong", if what you intended to say was "Families should make the choice, not governments."
- TomMarius 7y agoI was answering to people saying that because the chance is only 10% then maybe it's not worth it, and that's why I made that point, I don't understand why are you talking about some unrelated life extension stuff, this is infectious disease and its treatment. I wanted to personalize it because then it's harder to say no compared to talking about abstract dehumanized numbers, or unknown and unrelated people (from policy maker perspective); and I thought it's obvious that "do not treat" should be respected. English is not my native language, I will do better next time.