Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 9th Sep 2009 21:36 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
After back and forth rumors about the health of Apple's revered Steve Jobs way back in last year and the beginning of 2009, it turned out that he really did have some health problems: complications with his liver requiring a transplant. It was supposed that he'd return to Apple by the end of June, and now he's finally made his first public appearance since he first took his medical leave of absence earlier this year.
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Unequal access is a problem with the US healthcare system but I don't believe that trying to save your own life by giving yourself the best chances at survival is wrong in any way. It's a natural instinct.
I know what you would have done...exactly the same thing Jobs did. If you're on death's door and someone tells you that there's a liver across the country that could save your life you don't think about it for a second. You hop on a plane and get the transplant. There's really nothing noble about valuing your life less than everyone else's. It's a bogus argument to say that Jobs was unethical for not dying for someone else when it is entirely possible that no one died for him.
Really? It doesn't seem like it. I don't think you have any evidence to back up the idea that Jobs didn't do the right thing.
Is it just tech forums or does everyone think they're an expert on totally unrelated subjects? The truth is you know jack squat about the situation but it seems to make people feel better to criticize celebrities. It's just particularly vile to me when people criticize life and death decisions with absolutely no idea what the circumstances were.