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originally posted by: Sillyolme
I do not think the Hippocratic oath includes a passage about citizenship and I do not recall any questions to that affect on any admission forms I filled out.
I've only ever been in the hospital for childbirth so maybe it's different if you're sick.
Who thought up this gem of a question?
originally posted by: ZapBrannigan3030
These types of "questions" are essentially a "eugenics for dummies" type of thing.
Sure, the average person may see it as something as simple as old vs young. But it's all the same thing. Because the line will always move.
Age...then becomes gender(reproduction capacity), but whenever the two comparators meet the same requirements you have to move to the next. So you get to genetics. IQ, race, etc.
The reality is that very, very few actually have the intellectual capacity let alone the lack of morality/humanity to actual discuss such things. Let alone make the life or death decisions.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: jwlaffer
Why do they need to ask the candidates?
Shouldn't questions be directed to the current administration and not to the next one?