[LudwigNagasena]

Who are “your people”?

[amatecha]

The term I used was intentionally vague, referring broadly to the people who make up a given community, society or civilization. Everyone living in a given country, for example. Everyone within a respective health authority's region of responsibility. The people who make up the society in which we live, and with whom we share some degree of dependence and implicit/explicit responsibility to help ensure the survival of.

[LudwigNagasena]

Do you think a civilization where healthcare is provided by mandatory extraction of wealth under a threat of violence is more humane compared to the one where people take care only of their close relatives without being compelled by any force?

[yarg]

Clearly he's referring to the citizens of a nation.

[LudwigNagasena]

Should every person consider people with the same citizenship as “their people” and treat them better than others? Is it really uncivilized and inhumane to not follow that norm?

[yarg]

I think you're reading tribalism into an issue of logistics.

[LudwigNagasena]

There are no logistics issues with residents and tourists.

[yarg]

Bloody hell man, you really do like to read between imaginary lines.

[LudwigNagasena]

I think you have imagined those imaginary lines. I have no idea what you mean.

[drekk]

Presumably the voting-age population in the US that allows people to die untreated (or buried in medical debt)