The only difference is whether the system is formal and overseen by "ethics committees" terribly concerned about the burden of making the decisions; or whether we're doing it on a "first-come, first-served" basis.Opinion: My father should be in surgery rehab. But with beds full of the unvaccinated, he died in covid quarantine. https://t.co/9gsqGtq44z
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 29, 2021
The latter, of course, absolves everyone of responsibility. And I've come to believe avoiding responsibility is the primary task of human beings as social animals. "Heroes" are the people in our stories who actually take responsibility, from Beowulf to Batman. The rest of us are just glad they do, so we don't have to.
"Religion is responsibility, or it is nothing at all."
We are not a religious country. Not in the slightest.
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