If I had to deal with the situation as was proposed here:
In response to your comment about deferring to a hypothetical community who gives no life-saving intervention for people under 9 years old: if people had good access to information and resources, and their group decision was to focus a large amount of resource on saving lives of extremely old people on the community … Maybe we should do this? I say this because I can think of reasons a community might want grandparents around for another few years (e.g. to pass on language, culture, knowledge) instead of more children at the moment. I think, if a community was at massive risk of loss of culture, the donors’ insistence on saving young lives over the elders’ lives could be incredibly frustrating.
At the end of the day, I tend towards individual fairness over group/cultural fairness, primarily because I don’t care too much for cultural essentialism/cultural preservation efforts. Thus I would choose to try to save the children first, then move on to the elderly. Yes, it will be incredibly frustrating, but then strife will always exist between group non-discrimination and individual fairness, I just try to resolve the strife in favor of one side.
Yeah, interesting. I definitely disagree with you on whose preferences should be met in this case, and suspect there are some situations where I would agree with you, but would require a lot of context to understand exactly where the lone of agree/disagree is.
If I had to deal with the situation as was proposed here:
At the end of the day, I tend towards individual fairness over group/cultural fairness, primarily because I don’t care too much for cultural essentialism/cultural preservation efforts. Thus I would choose to try to save the children first, then move on to the elderly. Yes, it will be incredibly frustrating, but then strife will always exist between group non-discrimination and individual fairness, I just try to resolve the strife in favor of one side.
Yeah, interesting. I definitely disagree with you on whose preferences should be met in this case, and suspect there are some situations where I would agree with you, but would require a lot of context to understand exactly where the lone of agree/disagree is.