You value all lives equally, with no additional preference to your own?
If you suddenly fell ill with a disease which is curable, but is very expensive, would you refuse treatment to save “lives easier and cheaper to save than” your own?
Naturally, insurance may cover said expensive treatment, but it can also cover cryonics. Do you only believe in insurance with reasonable caps on cost, such that your medical expenses can never be more than average?
You value all lives equally, with no additional preference to your own?
No, in fact I am probably over to the egoist side of the spectrum among LWers. I said my answers were somewhat flip.
My moral intuitions are pretty close to “Do unto others as they do unto you” except that there is a uni-directional inter-generational flow superimposed. I draw my hope of immortality from children, nephews, nieces, etc.
Do you only believe in insurance with reasonable caps on cost, such that your medical expenses can never be more than average?
I favor payment caps and co-pays on all medical insurance, whether I pay through premiums or taxes. That is only common sense. But capping at everybody-gets-exactly-the-average kinda defeats the purpose of an insurance scheme, doesn’t it?
You value all lives equally, with no additional preference to your own?
If you suddenly fell ill with a disease which is curable, but is very expensive, would you refuse treatment to save “lives easier and cheaper to save than” your own?
Naturally, insurance may cover said expensive treatment, but it can also cover cryonics. Do you only believe in insurance with reasonable caps on cost, such that your medical expenses can never be more than average?
No, in fact I am probably over to the egoist side of the spectrum among LWers. I said my answers were somewhat flip.
My moral intuitions are pretty close to “Do unto others as they do unto you” except that there is a uni-directional inter-generational flow superimposed. I draw my hope of immortality from children, nephews, nieces, etc.
I favor payment caps and co-pays on all medical insurance, whether I pay through premiums or taxes. That is only common sense. But capping at everybody-gets-exactly-the-average kinda defeats the purpose of an insurance scheme, doesn’t it?