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Old 12-28-2006, 02:59 PM
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Default Re: Politics-Ethics Question

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Assuming the US has a population of 300 million and the wealth it now owns, should a baby born with no arms and no legs, (with no chance of being fixed), but otherwise healthy, be kept alive and healthy by the government if no one else will do it?


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Yes. Government inaction is itself an action. Allowing him to die is the same as killing him.
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