I don't want to pay high taxes when I am young so I can spend all that money in a ****ing nursing home. I would rather have that money now so I can travel and do other fun stuff and spend more time with my family perhaps not working so much.

Also, old people seem like the biggest narcissists around. They don't want to stop driving even though they are a huge risk to everyone else but zero ****s are given.

Also, there was a CNN story not too long ago with some lady whose kid needs open heart surgery annually and she was like "Look it costs $350,000/year how could I ever pay this without my insurance" and someone in the comments said, "At any other point in human civilization the kid would have just died and you would have had another". It is mean, but he kind of has a point.

he said without a hint of irony

Okay.

You say that now, but let's see if you feel the same way when you're 80.

In other words "**** you got mine"

I think we should just let bad threads die

I will also do my part to kill this thread by posting in it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

the point isn't that, but we have a gung ho mentality that says save them at all costs, but a lot of that is simply "how much $ can we make off them before they die".

Unfortunately, we have a bunch of people instantly responded like trolls so I'm just gonna mention my own experience with some relative who had cancer, but the drugs did nothing (studies keep showing this, but lol @ us not spending a ****load of $ for no reason) and the rest of time he was mentally gone already and the time extended in his life was spent all in the doctor's office or hospital. All it did was prolong family pain and suffering for a lot of profit for them. Somehow this is not just acceptable but encouraged in this society.

Unfortunately, few of us act like adults so the convos we have are either "save them at all costs no matter what" and "let them die because I don't wanna pay for it LOL YOU".

There's clear instances where it's best for everyone we should let them go. Unfortunately you get people screaming DEATH PANELS or whatever the **** so we'll always get bull**** rather than anything reasonable.

Obviously (hopefully) when OP is talking like "**** you got mine" he's meaning more deeply on a social level. Would you sign up for a plan where you pay $500/mo until retirement for a guaranteed 90-day bedridden mentally-vacant period tacked on to the end of your natural life?

The kid with heart surgery thing is an only tangentially-related issue. This doesn't happen to almost everyone and is simply a very extreme example of a much larger group of people with chronic health problems they were born with that dramatically increase lifetime medical costs. Different set of questions for society.

Thread title needs changing to "I think we should just let old and young people die"

At any other point in human history people were slaves and women were property.

Some people do.

Saw it at an assisted living facility. My grandparents were there for years. I'd visit them with family and we were almost always the only family members visiting somebody.

There are more slaves and privately owned women now than at any other time in history, maybe not percentage-wise, but certainly in raw numbers.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health..._clinical.html

Well I sure don't have any. What am I doing wrong?

You are simply being held back by your "conscience." Look into Eastern European mail order brides. I myself already have two and they actually generate profit above their housing and feeding costs when you rent them out to thirsty locals.

OmgGlutten!,

Not Sure If Srs, but, the answer is there will never be equality of application so the idea is a non-starter. Rich people will give their sickly children the 50 heart surgeries and the poor kids will die from whooping cough, twas ever thus. The notion of a non-evil egalitarian eugenics has always been a pipe-dream hypothetical, for the same reason. The poor couple would be sterilized for the genetic predisposition to whooping cough while the rich couple would continue to pop out five-assed eraserhead babies.

its quite clear that women were not meant to live past menopause and should certainly be put to death in their early to mid 50s when they start to go absolutely insane.

Here are some papers to help you decide the cutoff age:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361028/

Graph of remaining medical costs by age:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...8/figure/fig1/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2645209/

Distribution of expected lifetime costs (Canada, so not as much money):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...09/figure/FG5/

So the answer seems to be move to Canada. Maybe they use the old ice floe trick to cut costs.

You don't own them yourself, but they make, harvest or extract many of the products you use and consume.

Yeah not the point of this thread but if humanity continues without massive disruption future generations will view us closer to plantation owners than we like to believe we are.

Sure you will think like this when you are 70?