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A Q regarding death

MikeDamoneMikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
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How many people are you willing to let die from one cause in order to prevent others from dying from something else? Does it change your opinion if one group is mostly children in the third world and the other is mostly elderly white people who drank a 50 ounce soda daily for 60 years or ruined their lungs with cigarettes ?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un-idUSKBN21Y2X7
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  • doogiedoogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Depends. What does XiNN say I should think about it?
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  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,844
    Here in America Sir, We are proud of our long standing tradition of sacrificing the young to save the olds.
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  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,851
    dflea said:

    Third world kids dying................meat shortage in the US. I can see one problem fixing the other.

    Lol

    Like the zoo where they fed some of the animals to others


    You got that craving for HUMAN MEAT too?
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,008 Standard Supporter
    MikeDamone said:

    How many people are you willing to let die from one cause in order to prevent others from dying from something else? Does it change your opinion if one group is mostly children in the third world and the other is mostly elderly white people who drank a 50 ounce soda daily for 60 years or ruined their lungs with cigarettes ?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un-idUSKBN21Y2X7

    I actually care about a lot of things I can't do anything about and am not responsible for and really doesn't affect me or my family. But I don't care that much. I didn't have anything to do with the Wuhan Flu and the socialist/theftocracies that run most of the planet. What does piss me off is that my son was laid off. Oh and 30 million other Americans. And Adolph Brown is the immediate cause. He actually got hired back to help the business re-open, but that is still speculative given Brown's indeterminate view about "testing" and total safety. Investor's need certainty. Their job is to make a business judgment about whether people want to come back, not whether and when they will be allowed to open and then capriciously closed again if the second wave shows up. If you get type II diabetes from gluttony or lung cancer from smoking, I care - but not much. At least smokers pay for their care through huge taxes and a shortened life span that stops medicare and Social Security payments.

    I've been pretty clear. Do our best to keep the nursing homes out of the Wuhan Flu target zone. That has nothing to do with the rest of us. If you are 40 years old and undergoing chemo for cancer - then take care. If you are the counselor, hide under your bed and self-quarantine. If I want to go get a hair cut and endanger the young kids in Venezuela - then let me.

    Merck announced a significant sale drop in one of its leading cancer drugs as cancer victims can't get into the hospital. Chock up some more Wuhan Flu deaths.
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  • PandaOrangeChiknDuckPandaOrangeChiknDuck Member Posts: 545
    WestlinnDuck said:

    MikeDamone said:

    How many people are you willing to let die from one cause in order to prevent others from dying from something else? Does it change your opinion if one group is mostly children in the third world and the other is mostly elderly white people who drank a 50 ounce soda daily for 60 years or ruined their lungs with cigarettes ?

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un-idUSKBN21Y2X7

    I actually care about a lot of things I can't do anything about and am not responsible for and really doesn't affect me or my family. But I don't care that much. I didn't have anything to do with the Wuhan Flu and the socialist/theftocracies that run most of the planet. What does piss me off is that my son was laid off. Oh and 30 million other Americans. And Adolph Brown is the immediate cause. He actually got hired back to help the business re-open, but that is still speculative given Brown's indeterminate view about "testing" and total safety. Investor's need certainty. Their job is to make a business judgment about whether people want to come back, not whether and when they will be allowed to open and then capriciously closed again if the second wave shows up. If you get type II diabetes from gluttony or lung cancer from smoking, I care - but not much. At least smokers pay for their care through huge taxes and a shortened life span that stops medicare and Social Security payments.

    I've been pretty clear. Do our best to keep the nursing homes out of the Wuhan Flu target zone. That has nothing to do with the rest of us. If you are 40 years old and undergoing chemo for cancer - then take care. If you are the counselor, hide under your bed and self-quarantine. If I want to go get a hair cut and endanger the young kids in Venezuela - then let me.

    Merck announced a significant sale drop in one of its leading cancer drugs as cancer victims can't get into the hospital. Chock up some more Wuhan Flu deaths.
    This has nothing to do with saving lives. You will notice that left leaning states will be the last to reopen if at all this year. This has all to do about getting as many people to live off the government’s dime as possible. If they get enough people relying on government assistance, the more job security they have. Nothing more, nothing less.
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  • Bob_CBob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,201 Swaye's Wigwam
    “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
    -OBrien, 1984

    All of us on this board will be vaporized.
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  • doogiedoogie Member Posts: 15,072
    Will the vapor be FDA approved?
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  • ThomasFremontThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    Bob_C said:

    “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”
    -OBrien, 1984

    All of us on this board will be vaporized.

    I fondly remember the days when quoting 1984 in this shit hole got you mocked and called an overreacting expletive.

    Glad we can all just enjoy the book together now.
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  • Bob_CBob_C Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 10,201 Swaye's Wigwam
    The new world order will be great, unlimited safe spaces, free housing, no college debt and no guns.
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  • Pitchfork51Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 26,851
    ThomasFremont said:


    Lol I was gonna look it up. I appreciate you
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  • HuskyJWHuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 14,334 Swaye's Wigwam
    Anything west of Mt. Hood...south of the Columbia....north of Tigard

    I’m good with whatever happens
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  • WestlinnDuckWestlinnDuck Member Posts: 15,008 Standard Supporter
    I'm a couple of miles south of Tigard so I got that going for me.
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  • KaepskneeKaepsknee Member Posts: 14,844
    HuskyJW said:

    Anything west of Mt. Hood...south of the Columbia....north of Tigard

    I’m good with whatever happens

    At this point. Bring it on down the valley.
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