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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Questions like this are rhetorical and leading nowhere.
Say, you and your wife can afford to donate $500 this year and have a family meeting to choose between different good causes:
- cancer research
- hospice for dying children
- nursing home for low-income seniors
- sick veterans
- homeless shelter
- addiction treatment centre
- pregnant teens
- victims of child abuse
- charities serving handicapped people
All of the above causes work for saving or improving human lives. I assume you will be having some kind of a discussion arguing for the merits of each family member's preferred cause before distributing the $500 and "putting a price on human life" argument is not going to be received well. You will need to choose. |
For me it is pretty easy.
There are lots and lots of social problems here in Canada. One of those social problems isn't living in a war zone. I apply simple triage method.
Yeah you might have a broken arm, but guess what the fella with the sucking chest wound is closer to death than you. He takes priority.
I am not try to persuade you to be honest. We all make decisions. What I find disingenuous is that some people that are talking about our homeless, food banks, veterans care are the same people that complain about welfare and that people should be able to pull themselves up. (not saying you per se, I don't know you well enough).