Australia’s PBS decision-making framework was built to make difficult decisions fairly, in theory. The reality is that decisions made ethically consistent within this framework can produce outcomes that are intrinsically unethical because of their intolerable human impact. At that point, where the consequence is suffering or death, they become immoral.
We do not judge the system on its humanity because we never even discuss it
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