Death panels are inevitable under socialized medicine, and such panels are guided by “life boat ethics”.
“Life boat ethics” is the term for the attempt to find ethical principles in emergency situations, with the prime example being the case where one is stuck in a life boat with a limited capacity, and you have to choose between saving your child or your mother. Clearly this is a no-win situation. It becomes even worse when someone else takes away your choice.
However, this whole approach to ethics is flawed at the outset because life isn’t lived under emergency conditions most of the time.
If you step back and regard the essence of the socialized medicine debate in ethical/political terms, what emerges is that medicine is a side issue in what is really a fight between egoism/individualism on the one hand, and altruism/collectivism on the other.
If you’re for life, liberty and the pursuit of your OWN happiness, then defeat socialized medicine, socialized banking, socialized car making, socialized energy,… and on an on.
Defeat socialism in whatever form it takes.
Fight for individualism.
