I've been polite and tried to avoid going straight to the Logan's Run argument, but you haven't let up. Frankly, viruses that single out the old and infirm are a good thing. Your perception of the cost being marginal ignores the significant cost the elderly and infirm take on the economy and society by merely existing.
I acknowledge that everything that is born is ordained to die from its inception. The trouble is greed and fear. People greedily cling to life valuing quantity over quality.
How many billions do we collectively spend every year so that people can eke out another year of suffered existence, driven simply by greedy love of existence or fear of the inevitable? How much else could be done with those resources?
There was a time, not so long ago, when pneumonia was regarded as the friend of the elderly. Of all the ways to die of age (bearing in mind that everything does die) it is one of the swiftest and least painful; it's not a lingering death.
Just as we don't squander organ transplants on people over a certain age (it depends on the organ and the country but generally past 60 the only organ you might get is a kidney), I don't think we should squander one penny dealing with respiratory illness, unless it's a disease that hits the young and healthy hard (like spanish flu).
I've been polite and tried to avoid going straight to the Logan's Run argument, but you haven't let up. Frankly, viruses that single out the old and infirm are a good thing. Your perception of the cost being marginal ignores the significant cost the elderly and infirm take on the economy and society by merely existing.
It's not that I want people "to die".
I acknowledge that everything that is born is ordained to die from its inception. The trouble is greed and fear. People greedily cling to life valuing quantity over quality.
How many billions do we collectively spend every year so that people can eke out another year of suffered existence, driven simply by greedy love of existence or fear of the inevitable? How much else could be done with those resources?
There was a time, not so long ago, when pneumonia was regarded as the friend of the elderly. Of all the ways to die of age (bearing in mind that everything does die) it is one of the swiftest and least painful; it's not a lingering death.
Just as we don't squander organ transplants on people over a certain age (it depends on the organ and the country but generally past 60 the only organ you might get is a kidney), I don't think we should squander one penny dealing with respiratory illness, unless it's a disease that hits the young and healthy hard (like spanish flu).