ffantasizing
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cars, by getting those with defects, .. off the road, perhaps sending them to a scrap yard. So to improve population health of people, wouldn't one initiative be to send those with health defects to some sort of scrap yard where they are no longer counted in any "population health" survey ?
Isn't the real question "Who is generating this nonsense" ? Why are people so gullible that they can't see through this ?
A logical extension is "You previously packed that person off to a scrap yard when they had health problems. Intergenerational equity and fair innings arguments now suggest that you too should be sent to a scrap yard."
"Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. One recent example I cannot pass over in silence. Alexander VI did nothing else but deceive men, nor ever thought of doing otherwise, and he always found victims; for there never was a man who had greater power in asserting, or who with greater oaths would affirm a thing, yet would observe it less; nevertheless his deceits always succeeded according to his wishes, because he well understood this side of mankind."
(translation of Machiavelli, The Prince, ch 18, para. 21)
Isn't the real question "Who is generating this nonsense" ? Why are people so gullible that they can't see through this ?
A logical extension is "You previously packed that person off to a scrap yard when they had health problems. Intergenerational equity and fair innings arguments now suggest that you too should be sent to a scrap yard."
"Men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. One recent example I cannot pass over in silence. Alexander VI did nothing else but deceive men, nor ever thought of doing otherwise, and he always found victims; for there never was a man who had greater power in asserting, or who with greater oaths would affirm a thing, yet would observe it less; nevertheless his deceits always succeeded according to his wishes, because he well understood this side of mankind."
(translation of Machiavelli, The Prince, ch 18, para. 21)