The question is, should we have done it? What was or is the correct and most compassionate investment?
I believe that those on death's-door in rest homes and the like, are driven to live not so much out of a love for life but a fear of death. They have not made peace with death. And I believe this, in large part, is a result of the materialist-atheist mindset that is prevalent in modern society. Most of us are terrified of death, premature or not, because we basically think that biological death is absolute death (which may be irrational. See here).
The result I believe has been the distortion of our compassion. We've gone a bit crazy with our fear.
The natural investment priority for any species is the young fertile family, and for obvious reasons. Yet we have instead sold the fertile family out because of our materialist faith, making us desperate for life-extension which is again, as I believe, derivative of our failure to make peace with death. We have abandoned balance.
As a society it's killing us, as we have now made it too hard for young people to breed in a healthy and low-stress way, and at the right time of their lives. Too much is given to the elderly and at the wrongful expense of youth. Children are now being born in unusually small numbers, and often they are born in response to some kind of midlife crises, when really they should be born to parents who are young with spirit and energy.
This needs to change. Our compassion is distorted. When people come to the end of their lives they, and the rest of us, must accept that death is ok. We need to stop making this absolutist religion out of life-extension as though it doesn't come at a cost. When we go too far, as we have, it comes at serious cost - and we are today paying for it dearly. We are not breeding properly.
-No more mass qurantines.
-Means testing for pensions and health services.
-Prioritisation of welfare towards youth, when prioritisation is required.
-Andrew Atkin
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