Don't they usually have an exact copy of the spacecraft on Earth to do the testing?

Good point and this program may stave off the crisis for a little while... The problem with, frankly stealing other countries highly skilled people is that the main sources of highly skilled immigration to Canada, namely China, Russia, Ukraine are themselves facing demographic crisis so one wonders for how long they will continue to turn a blind eye towards this poaching. Even India, another major skilled migrant donor now only has 2.139 love births per woman, which is pretty much exactly the replacement rate.

Even if we choose to support harm reduction policies for existing addicts we should still take care not to get people addicted by overprescribing opioids for minor/moderate pain.

I see, so you are a Nietzsche fan. Well, his inner moral system sure didn't bring him any happiness. Hope you can do better.

Potential savings in my example of a 30 y/o person are in the tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of their remaining lifetime. When scaled up to the millions of the sick, the elderly and the "unproductive" the savings will cancel out whatever the cost of legislation and other administrative overhead was.

Most developed countries social security system will be running out of money by 2050. It's all over the news, so somebody must be doing the counting and looking for ways to cut down on costs. We can't magically create tens of millions of young, healthy tax payers so the only other way (without radically changing how the system works) is to get rid of the sick, the elderly and the unproductive. This is the plan and what we are seeing now is merely a pilot project. It's an Overton window to get the public to accept the radical idea that everyone should be offered the "dignified exit" option.

Rejecting God was such a cool thing to do... Two hundred years ago... So where does your morality come from, Mr. Edgelord?

Our fallen nature manifested in capitalist greed is fucking up the human race. Religion offers salvation in the next world and hope and compassion to the billions ofm people in this world. Atheism has ever only caused suffering.

Let me get this straight. Drug cartels are funding NBC to discredit good opioid prescribing doctors so they can sell more fentanyl on the black market? And that pharmacy opioids are magical and only "For a few people with bad impulse control" get addicted to them?

I thought Emperor Caracalla game Roman citizenship to to all free men throughout the Roman Empire.

Compare the cost of one lethal injection for a 30 y/o mental health patient to the cost of lifelong treatment and social security support.

Amusing you don't recognize Christian or Muslim morality which is followed by the majority of the world. God never gives you more than you can handle. Suffering is a test and those who commit suicide ironically condemn themselves to an eternity of suffering.

No, he is talking about doctors like this one https://www.nbcnews.com/news/u...

Bro Ken doesn't waste time watching Netflix or browsing the Web. His days are filled with pondering the nature of computation for which the Pi is more than sufficient.

Nice cherry-picking, do you know that the Hippocrates oath also includes a pledge to not perform abortions (and euthanasia)? "I will not give a lethal drug to anyone if I am asked, nor will I advise such a plan; and similarly I will not give a woman a pessary to cause an abortion". Maybe the ancients weren't so wise aftercall.