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Old 05-27-2020 | 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by BigZ
Why bother looking for a cancer cure then? Or have defibrillators onboard? Or the seatbelts?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/world...ntl/index.html

Actually, the Public Health and Preventive Medicine people look at the world in YPPL, Years of Potential Life Lost.

While every death is an individual tragedy In its own way, they are realistic. You don’t take the money needed to vaccinate a thousand kids and use it to extend the misery of an 80 year old with dementia. Resources are always limited and you spend where you can get the most bang for the buck. And yeah, that makes a seat belt - or an airbag - a good deal. Same if you can cure a life-threatening arrhythmia with a hundred joules of electricity. And two out of three new cancers ARE cured today.

But resources have ALWAYS been prioritized to where they would do the most overall good. To do otherwise from a public health standpoint would be immoral.

But seriously, do you really believe any amount of resources would EVER lead to human Individual immortality? Or that that would even be desirable?
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