Louise Aronson
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1,082 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Jul 2024
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That is just terrible.
Yes, you should worry about ageism because we live in this crazy world where nobody wants to die and people want to stay alive and they want to do all these things, but it's not okay to grow old.
And because it's not okay to grow
old or even talk about growing old...
We create a world that isn't really set up for old people, and then we blame old age for any challenges they have.
It's crazy.
And also, I really feel like if we start killing off one population, it's a pretty dramatic slippery slope downward to killing off other populations or writing off other populations.
You breach that ethical line, and we're all in trouble.
Definitely.
You know, would we have the vice president saying steer clear of children?
Would we have this incredible person, the commentator Bethany Mandel, who said something like, you can call me a grandma killer, you know, like I'm not sacrificing my home and food and all our doctors and every form of pleasure just to make other people comfortable.
You know, which was sort of a broad thing about lockdown versus not, but there was an ageism, you know, or the lieutenant governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, who said, you know, old people should just sacrifice themselves.
You know, should children sacrifice themselves?
Should 40-year-olds sacrifice themselves?
And, you know, is there an argument like at least these are people who lived full lives, right?
Yes, but again, if you start saying certain people are of less value, then you end up, well, actually you end up with human history, which is kind of depressing, but okay, so let's try and rise above that.
You end up with racism, you end up with sexism, you end up with ableism, you end up with this cycle that we have in society of saying, well, those people aren't worth as much because of the sort of work they do.
and the sort of lives they lead.
And you don't add into that equation what opportunities we have or haven't given them.
We also look at kids and we'll say, well, they're the future.
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