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I don't know that much about diabetes, but I'm sure that there are people for whom insulin is more of an urgent need than the average diabetic. And if not diabe

I don't know that much about diabetes, but I'm sure that there are people for whom insulin is more of an urgent need than the average diabetic. And if not diabetes, there's plenty of conditions where people have it in varying degrees of severity, where lack of treatment is life threatening for some and not a huge deal for others. If you had, for example, 10 treatments for a disease, 10 severe cases, and 10 mild cases, I would assume that utilitarianism would posit that the 10 most severe cases should get it.

Trasmatta 6y ago
Insulin is an urgent need for any T1 diabetic. They could maybe make it a week depending on what they ate, but they could also be dead in a day. There isn't really such a thing as mild or severe Type 1, only well treated and poorly treated. You could maybe say "insulin is an urgent need for a diabetic who just ate 3 cookies, but not as urgent for one who just ate a plate of vegetables". But both will need some amount of insulin within 24 hours. Type 2 is a different story, and not all Type 2's need insulin.