Who decides "policies' ? Do you see the hidden influence of ZPG people ?

Question

My question is prompted by this insight by Slaby and Tancredi.

<<The economics of moral values. Policy implications.Slaby AE, Tancredi LR.

This paper attempts to determine the extent to which the growing acceptance of deviant behaviors (sexual, sumptuary, and regarding abortion and euthanasia) is related to economic considerations and to draw out some of the attendant implications for health policy in light of notions of social justice. The analysis suggests that economic factors are very influential if not determining variables in this relationship and that they may conflict with "higher-order values" such as human dignity and respect for human life as bases for policy formulation, particularly with respect to the care of the elderly.>>

ZPG could be met by influencing perceptions.

It seems that ZPG people have already twigged to this and are already doing it.

Answer 1

I think what the paper may just be about is, the &quot;deviant behaviors&quot; are accepted because in the crunch for resources that happens when we are overcrowded, it seems harder and harder to justify allocating them to other people&#039;s fetuses and the demented and the willfully self-destructive and the very infirm elderly. (The bit about sexual deviance lumped in with all these is beyond me. I suspect the abstract is from some very conservative publication?) The moral slippery slope that supposedly comes from lowering standards of &quot;pro-life-ness&quot; might work out well for ZPG types, superficially, but ultimately even their own posterity should then inherit a less moral world... I don&#039;t see anyone influencing perceptions on purpose. Too farfetched, even for me.

Answer 2

...Oh yea, it is going on  long time already...dumaesh ne dogonyat?