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Re:The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and u... by ams6110 on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:31PM (#9788704)
Society has been trending towards "arbitrary personal preference" in many areas lately. Conversely, society has condoned and even encouraged things that are horribly unfair. So I don't see why we would carve out an exception for judging the "well-lived-ness" of a person's life based on society's precepts about the number or closeness of friends and family.
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Re:The Lonely End: in aging Japan, thousands die alone and u... by coldtea on Friday June 26, 2015 @11:32PM (#9788991)
>Society has been trending towards "arbitrary personal preference" in many areas lately

Yeah, or degenerating, one could say. It also happened in the last days of Rome...

>Conversely, society has condoned and even encouraged things that are horribly unfair.

Well, it's a balancing act. Society doesn't mean people get a free pass to abandon personal judgement. That said, all those "horribly unfair" things seem horribly unfair to us, from a distance. To their own society they looked perfectly normal.

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