Questions are being raised about the case of a 36-year-old Ontario woman who died of liver failure after she was rejected for a life-saving liver transplant after a medical review highlighted her prior alcohol use.
  • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
    123·
    2 months ago

    Honestly I find that the opposite of grim, I wish more problems were solved in a cold and calculated way.

    • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      2 months ago

      Like killing disabled people because it’s cheaper, farming slaves to provide cheap labour, that sort of thing?

      There a good reason we tend to prefer the more humane and emotionally guided solutions over the mathematically most efficient.

      • Fleur_@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        That’s only true if you are optimising for profit. You can make a purely logical argument for caring for people.