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Originally Posted by DaFace
Not sure how you interpret "80 year olds dying abd 8 year olds dying doesn't have the same impact." That sounds like "they're old so screw them" to me.
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I interpret it the way any normal person would. One has lived 80 years and longer than a lot of people. One has lived 8 years and much shorter than most people.
I am sorry to tell you but one 8 year old is worth ten 80 year olds and I bet you those 80 year olds would all agree with me.
You say it sounds like "screw them" because you want it too. The facts are this DaFace, this virus does impact the elderly. A person in their 80's will tell you their life is not worth a person who is 8. Cold, hard life will tell you a person their 80's is not worth the life of a person who is 8.
That's not uncaring. That's just a hard fact of life. And the point he is making is 100% correct. If this disease was killing children at the rate it is killing elderly people you would see hell and high water being moved to stop it. That doesn't mean people don't care about the elderly. That means you make a rational decision that a person with 70+ years of life ahead of them is worth more than a person with 70+ years of life behind them.
Unfortunately at times that decision has to be made and it's not fun and not fair but neither is life at times.
I don't know any elderly person that wouldn't give their life for a child.