Isn't male privilige grand?

[Sixgunsound]

Excerpt from Man (Dis) Connected by past APA president Phil Zimbardo and Nikita Coulombe.

[Weapon77]

It started millenia ago, but humans outcompeted other species by not just letting weaker people die. We gave weaker people the opportunity to live, and it allowed those weaker people with exceptional skills, like the ability to create fire or sing or make medicine, to live and improve our whole society. And it continued like that for millenia, but recently we've been going too far. Instead of just giving people equal opportunities to enrich the lives of themselves and those around them, we've started giving unfair advantages to people for arbitrary reasons (sex, race, sexuality), while making things harder for those who don't fit into those arbitrarily defined special groups. Even our medical field is an examlle of this as we work harder and harder to keep people alive long beyond when they can enjoy it and contribute to society. I can't help but wonder why we do so much to keep extremely old people like Joe Biden alive but do comparatively little to keep alive 6 year olds dying of cancer. It seems backwards. I'm not saying I want children's grandparents to be left to die or given poor healthcare, but why are we keeping grandpa barely clinging to life just to waste away in a nursing home while someone else's grandchild withers away because of cancer and loses all potential for a life?

[Sixgunsound]

Like most things in health care it comes down to who has the greater ability to pay, and whose death would cost the hospital more in litigation. That is how almost all hospital decisions are made.

[Weapon77]

Which makes perfect logical sense. Too bad though