Joseph
“Arguing to save the lives of young people before older people, most certainly is inherently evil and based on dark and evil impulses.”
Take it easy, you are on very thin ice. There are shitas that way. there are shitas that put Talmid chacham before am haaretz (as mentioned earlier this came up in a very real way when getting people out of pre-war Europe), someone who will do mitzvas before someone who wont or wont do as many (eg men over women).
So please be very very careful how you phrase things.
It isnt “evil” if instead of being machshiv what we view as the ultimate contribution to society namely, Torah and mitzvos, they view “productivity” in other ways