@lumpthought 🫶 true.... raises the question of if the burden of care should fall only on those who love the disabled or more broadly on others who don't have a firsthand personal relationship to motivate a flow of resources from those who are generating / extracting more to those who aren't
@lumpthought fwiw my feelings abt what's "fair" come from the society I would choose from the Rawlsian veil of ignorance... except that what I think I would choose is still biased by my life experience so still idk
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