I thought today’s discussion was particularly interesting,
especially when the topic of elderly people versus youth was brought up. Logically, it makes
complete sense to rid of elderly person or even someone who is terminal at any
age, because they are only a leach on society. Within the 20th and 21st
centuries, we’ve become so medically advanced that we have increased our life
expectancy past natural years. In the 1800’s, the average person passed in their
40’s-50’s of natural causes. However, now we have prolonged death to a point
where it really isn’t natural for a person to die at 80. Although it is much
easier said than done, humanity idealistically should cut off all medicines
that prolong death (which would be most medicines). To most people it seems
immoral to allow your loved ones to pass at middle age, but they need to look
at the social and economic benefits.
-Morgan Mills
I do not agree with this at all. I think that since we do have all of these medical advancements it does a greater good on society. With people living longer than their 40's they come up with greater ideas on how to live life better. Without these people we would not know how to live life to the fullest, nor would we receive the greatest advice we could receive on how to live life. I know this because I receive the best advice from my grandparents and my aunts and uncles who are over this age. If we got rid of all medicine then the infant mortality rate would become high again and we would go back to living our lives like they did back then. Getting rid of medicine would mean getting rid of factories because they make our environment worse which makes our health worse. This would then cause us to back to farming to sustain our life. I do not agree with cutting off people at 40 at all.
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