endoself comments on Rationality Quotes: June 2011 - Less Wrong
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I care. If illness is abolished and a doctor of any age is starving, they can stay at my place and I'll feed them. Alternately, we could raise taxes slightly to finance government-mandated programs for training and reconversion of young doctors and early retirement for old doctors.
In other words: beware of though-mindedly accepting bad consequences of overall good policies. Look for a superior alternative first.
That can be a danger, but I think starvation is an obvious enough problem that people won't take this literally.