The good ole days

How many hungry people are okay? Does their age make a difference? Are people more expendable if they are under sixteen, or over sixty-five?

Perhaps free breakfasts and lunches should only go to the most successful students. We could have them vie for food like their older brothers and sisters do for scholarships. That might whittle down the competition a lot earlier.

If we need proof that some people are worth more we should be able to manufacture that by withholding food, health care, education and access to the arts to anyone who can't afford to pay for them on their own. A lack of those things has a tendency to wear people down.

The occasional success story, the real tear jerker tale of the starving disadvantaged person succeeding is enough for many people. It gives them someone to point to and salves their conscience.

These decisions used to be the stuff of science fiction movies . . .