[thechao]

He’s deliberately withholding money. Money is cross-fungible with expected life-span. Therefore, the withholding of funds can be equated with loss of years; every lost ~78 years is a lost life. I used to do these analyses at UTMB Galveston when interning in the nosicomia division.

[SpicyLemonZest]

That seems like the source of the error to me. It can't be the case that anyone who ever rejects a proposal to spend money is inflicting a loss of life years.

[TomSwirly]

> It can't be the case that anyone who ever rejects a proposal to spend money is inflicting a loss of life years.

Not all proposals are the same. A man who refuses to buy his child a new video game console is not the same as a man who refuses to pay for his child's life-saving surgery.

Your jump from "refusing to act against a deadly plague" to "refusing any spending proposal at any time" is breathtaking: I'm a little skeptical that this was a pure mistake...

[D-Coder]

Not normally. This situation however is not normal.