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If you look for it, you'll notice that "it's good that the backwards elderly are dying" has actually been a common political trope for a long time, and a lot of people who should have known better (including me, in the distant past) have accommodated or even encouraged it.
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It dehumanizes the elderly by refusing to treat them as individuals. Separately, it insults the pursuit of progress by peaceful persuasion: the foundation of civil society. But worst and most obviously, it resolves that the just punishment for sufficiently bad ideas is death.
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In Britain we had a lot of that until last December: https://www.google.com/search?rls=en&q=%22uk+turns+remain%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 …
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the elderly are frequently the target of discrimination and marginalization, maybe the broadest adult demographic that isn't well-equipped to defend itself :(
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