Re: Does being a good human being matter to you?
Doctors are prepared to allow patients to die when it suits them based primarily on the cost of keeping them alive. They will argue that it is better to allow them to die rather than keep them alive and waste money in doing so when there appears to be no hope. Doctors have even gone to court to force patients to die because they see it as a waste of time and resources in keeping someone alive who they feel in their professional opinion will not live long.
We constantly hear of 'postcode lottery' when it comes to NHS treatments and medicines. Some people can have it whilst others cannot, the result usually ending in prolonged death. The government will not spend money on certain types of drugs that will allow people to live longer but yet the same government allow the worst of the worst of criminals in the country to live at huge expense to the tax payer.
Therefore conclusion, the NHS, doctors and the government are prepared to allow people to die due to the cost of medical care and cost of medicines but yet you can kill 100 people in the worst possible way and you will be allowed to live, the only thing being lost is their freedom. They get 3 balanced meals a day, a warm bed, access to education, access to work, access to gym, all at tax payers expense but yet poor old Timmy who has a brain tumour is told he will have to die because it is too expensive to keep him alive or Ms Joe has to die because the medication to keep her alive is too expensive and thus the NHS will not pay for it and she cannot afford the £20,000 a month it will cost but hey, kill children, kill babies, kill anyone basically and we will keep you alive and well for the rest of your life. It's wrong, so very wrong.