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Yes, and? Educating children is more important than keeping elderly people alive. You know this to be true if you do a utilitarian analysis as objectively as po
by umanwizard 6y ago
Yes, and? Educating children is more important than keeping elderly people alive. You know this to be true if you do a utilitarian analysis as objectively as possible rather than ceding to emotion.
- ceejayoz 6y agoFalse dichotomy, in more than one way. You can still educate children via remote work - as a personal anecdote, mine have done better with a hybrid school approach - and a utilitarian analysis must still take into account emotional effects on children of losing a relative. Quite a few grandparents are the caregivers for their grandchildren, as well. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/this-is-the-age-of-grandparents/561527/ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/06/this-is-t... > Some 2.6 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, either because of a temporary change in circumstance for the parents, such as military deployment or joblessness, or something more lasting and terrible: mental illness, divorce, incarceration, death, or, as in Barb and Fran’s case, substance abuse.