ubiquitin – why would I answer such a question? How could I possibly make life changing decisions without the files in front of me? Your questioning of me just reinforces that we are not really on the same topic at all. I never implied that those decisions could not be made or that they should not be made. I don’t question your ability to find peace with the need to make those decisions. I question your attitude toward the decision, and that you seem to have lost the big picture of what Hashem is asking of us. The glasses scenerio was not hard so understand. It is an exercise I have used with school kids. Perhaps it is too uncomfortable for you (to use your choice of words).
When you choose between two patients, and you believe you are choosing appropriately, are you ever sorry that healthcare even demands it of you? Do you still wish for the day that the government will say, “I can’t believe we are opening more libraries when there isn’t even enough money to keep the dying old people alive!” Probably sounds silly to you. Or maybe you will misunderstand me to say books aren’t important. If Good and Emes ran the world, there would not be a penny going to ANYTHING superfluous if there is an old dying comatose patient who needs that funding to live. It won’t happen but it’s a VALUE. An attitude toward life, and a VALUE.
Anyone who knows the REAL value of a life would let everything else go while they funded healthcare. You can’t possibly change the system, but if only you were willing to see it for what it is and how it has affected you.