(09-17-2021, 04:54 PM)jamincan Wrote: I'm very firmly pro-vaccines and I support vaccine passports. I do, however, think that allowing vaccine status to alter how we treat people in the medical system is unconscionable and is a line I do not want us to cross.
Same. Anyone suggesting the unvaccinated or simply careless people in society who are infected and have a severe case of this disease does not deserve treatment is a psychopath. I hate seeing this sort of rhetoric online or in person.
To be frank, this thread has turned to shit with this endless arguing. I can tell most of you have never once studied even the most elementary of moral philosophy. Whether you like it or not, we live in a society where each life matters (it's why we house the most violent, abhorrent criminals and don't execute them). It doesn't matter if it's an anti-vaxxer slowly dying in an ICU or a violent pedophile that was stabbed in prison and is then suffering in the trauma ward of an emergency room. We treat all lives equally (at least until we reach a critical point and must triage, but we have not and very rarely have ever faced such a situation). We don't provide health care based on subjective moral interpretations. When we do that, that's when we find ourselves on the same railroad track that permitted eugenics. Anyone who believes we should act that way ought to get the fuck out of this country.