[loeg]

> Sane people don't kill people to save money.

Of course, that isn't true in the abstract. Some number of people die in the US annually for lack of government spending on healthcare, and presumably we could spend less and kill more people, or vice versa.

Government healthcare systems are kind of fundamentally a tradeoff between spending and saving lives.

[josephcsible]

There's a difference between killing someone and not saving someone's life.

[MockObject]

On a spreadsheet, they look quite the same.

[josephcsible]

Does this mean you should always pull the lever in the trolley problem?

[loeg]

That seems like a philosophical argument.

[carapace]

You're not sick, or old yet.

It gets less philosophical the longer you live.

[josephcsible]

Sure, but believing them to be the same is also a philosophical argument.