hings wrong with the “disabled people are worth less than able-bodied people” answer — beginning by pointing out that it can’t readily be distinguished from the “men are worth less than women” answer or the “poor people are worth less than rich people” answer.
I wouldn’t propose a healthcare system which set about curing femaleness by converting them to males, but I’d be pretty pleased with a health care system that made the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the diabetic to regulate blood sugar. So that is one rather important way to “readily distinguish” disability from gender.
“poor people are worth less than rich people,” I would imagine you would value a system (but not necessarily a healthcare system) which turned poor people in to rich people and did not turn rich people in to poor people. So in this sense, I’d imagine you and I would both find important similarities between “rich and poor” and “abled and disabled.” But I don’t think the health care system is the best place to address that social issue, so I didn’t propose “making the population richer” as part of the health care metric.
Please correct me where I either 1) imagine you would agree with something , but you actually disagree with it or 2) follow a chain or reasoning you would not agree with.
I wouldn’t propose a healthcare system which set about curing femaleness by converting them to males, but I’d be pretty pleased with a health care system that made the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the diabetic to regulate blood sugar. So that is one rather important way to “readily distinguish” disability from gender.
Understood. I agree with you here. But I do not think that is the same question as whether to consider physical disability in saving lives.
(Please don’t respond to this comment, since the substance is elsewhere.)
I wouldn’t propose a healthcare system which set about curing femaleness by converting them to males, but I’d be pretty pleased with a health care system that made the lame to walk, the blind to see, and the diabetic to regulate blood sugar. So that is one rather important way to “readily distinguish” disability from gender.
“poor people are worth less than rich people,” I would imagine you would value a system (but not necessarily a healthcare system) which turned poor people in to rich people and did not turn rich people in to poor people. So in this sense, I’d imagine you and I would both find important similarities between “rich and poor” and “abled and disabled.” But I don’t think the health care system is the best place to address that social issue, so I didn’t propose “making the population richer” as part of the health care metric.
Please correct me where I either 1) imagine you would agree with something , but you actually disagree with it or 2) follow a chain or reasoning you would not agree with.
Understood. I agree with you here. But I do not think that is the same question as whether to consider physical disability in saving lives.
(Please don’t respond to this comment, since the substance is elsewhere.)