10-04-2005, 05:31 AM
jahcs,Oct 4 2005, 04:51 AM Wrote:Whenever someone reduces a morality argument down to a question of money it short-changes everyone. (Sorry, I couldn't think of wording that avoids a bad pun. :blush: ) It may become a necessary part of the discusion but you can't truly discuss ethics and morality by reducing it down to monetary considerations.I thought I would be hard pressed to find someone that would support the right of a criminal to lifesaving treatment over the right ofa law-abiding citizen to that exact same treatment.
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We don't have an infinite cup, so resources need to be allocated. Why tie up the judicial system, the medical system, and the police dealing with an:
- illegal immigrant
- wife beating
- leecher
- who was discharged without conviction so that he wouldn't get deported
- and then beat his wife again.
I'd rather see the money go to 100 heart bypass operations for law abiding citizens than lifetime dialysis for a repeat violent offender like this one.
It is lucky for him that I have limited say in public spending. My recent voting attempts to change the government to one that would have kicked him out didn't quite go well enough ;)