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TwoQuestions posted:And if so, why? What policies and costs are justified to keep people alive (housed, fed, free from pollution)? Utilitarian take on: all living things, in general, try to preserve their life (or, at least, their genetic material). It takes a lot of psychological trauma to make someone voluntary choose death. This means people fearing for their lives will be compelled to try to deal with the threat. Faced with violence, they will fight back. Faced with starvation, they will try to procure food in various legal or illegal means. Faced with disease, they will try to flee the affected area, potentially spreading the infection. A society that doesn't guarantee a right to live and doesn't act to enforce this right becomes an unstable society, because its members have no reason to cooperate except fear and maybe ideology. Both of these motivations are not enough for an average man when their life (or lives of their friends or families) is at stake.
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