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LEARNING NEW THINGS CAN BE FUN
Rick: Here's what the current "Special Advisor for Health Policy" at OMB wrote in Jan, 2009:
Consideration of the importance of complete lives also
Comment Posted By jeffco On 9.08.2009 @ 21:35
supports modifying the youngest-first principle by
prioritising adolescents and young adults over infants
(figure). Adolescents have received substantial education and parental care, investments that will be wasted without a complete life. Infants, by contrast, have not yet received these investments. Similarly, adolescence brings with it a developed personality capable of forming and valuing long-term plans whose fulfi lment requires a complete life. As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin argues, “It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies and worse still when
an adolescent does”;
