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Tue Feb-01-05 01:09 AM
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26. As for the life expectancy rate: it's really a measure of whether society

is working for the benefit of everyone or just a few, which is why this Doctor's theory holds together so well.

Really, what he's arguing isn't about medicine. He's making an argument that egalitarianism is the best way to make the most people happy, and then correlationg it to a measure that's very obvious, but brings home one of the big problems of inequitable societies: you may be happy that there are people richer than you because you think that's how society should work, but do you really want to die much earlier than rich people?

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