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Date: 2011-03-13 04:43 pm (UTC)This sort of sentiment always brings to mind a story found in native American archeology. It was the burial site of a 12 or so year old boy - with spina bifida. They surmised that he couldn't ever have been able to walk; he had to be cared for quite diligently.
If this much poorer, without modern medicine society is willing to spend the resources to keep a non-contributing crippled individual alive, why wouldn't we? (Or could it be that each individual contributes...)
(And he's 91 - perhaps we should ship him to Siberia when he is no longer useful.)