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Originally Posted by Orruar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What a shocking and controversial statement. I'm sure all those non-perfect-people-murderers are going to come here in droves to debate you on that position.

I could have phrased it differently. But seriously. We don't have to let people die to issues like diabetes. The damn world has the technology to deal with it. Its douchey to just be like "fuck you die" in this case.

It goes back to the whole argument about automation (which is going to take this whole subject off topic if we do it here). But you can automate a ton of shit now which gives people free time to do other shit. And automate it cheaply.

Cleaning clothes for example. Very automated. Cheaper to do with machines. We don't force prisoners wear dirty rags. We tax payers pay for the laundry machines they use to automate it. Textiles. Though that goes into other issues with economies. But the diabetes industry is not new technology. Sure there's improvements here and there. But the majority of diabetes cases can be treated by tech that is refined and been around for 20 years. We know exactly how much resource it takes and what the cost to distribute is and we can project that for the increase and decrease yearly.

Its a good target for a social (civil) program. Think of it a bit like civil engineering with an investment in the future of our society. And I'm only going there because Obamacare is supposed to achieve this exact gaol. Make this affordable for everyone.

I'm arguing that it already is. From a technical standpoint. Either government can contract private industry, or we can run it as a civil program. Payed for by a small portion of our huge debt. We could slim down and fix the government and still have room to do things like this. Maybe you know transfer some of those administrators to this new program.

Now do we want to get all gattaca about diabetes? Thats irrelevant to whether we treat it or not and provide those people opportunities to live fulfilling more or less meaningful lives.