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Vultures consuming corpses before family or authorities are aware of the death is pretty much the least civilized norm I can image.
by DiggyJohnson 2y ago
Vultures consuming corpses before family or authorities are aware of the death is pretty much the least civilized norm I can image.
- mensetmanusman 2y ago“ The opposite of a civilization in this context, where people neglect the elderly and let them be eaten by vultures without care or concern, could be described as barbarism or a dystopia. These terms often carry connotations of societal decay, where moral and cultural norms have broken down, and the community fails to uphold basic human dignity. “
- lotsofpulp 2y agoThat’s too simplistic. The situation depends on multiple parameters, including rate of children (future workers) being added, rate of automation advancement, energy supplies, and changes in length of non productive years due to technological advances. It is obviously possible for old people to live too long so as to become a net cost to society, which means the resources used to keep them alive take from resources that could be spent elsewhere (such as on the young). In fact, that is the top political problem in almost all modern democracies, even though it is not stated that plainly.