How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:39AM (#28468242)

Should you?

I think most people would think that a poor person under the rule of a despotic king is still better off alive than dead. So how come that, if the king were to live for hundreds of years, that poor person would suddenly be better off dead?

I feel this line of reasoning boils down to, "if we can't have perfect equality, everyone should die".

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Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by spywaregorilla on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:38PM (#28471612)

You're assuming that the poor person gets immortality too. That's generous. Or even if they do, that they live in conditions that don't result in them dying from unnatural causes. Or just kill themselves because life is awful.

Better 100 good years than 500 bad ones.

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