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Ethicists agree on who should get treated first for coronavirus — Quartz

“The deontologist might well start with a justice argument: each person is individually valuable and should have an equal chance of health care,” says Anders Sandberg, a philosopher at the Future of Humanity Institute at the Oxford University. But if this is simply impossible, then the theory doesn’t hold. “As Kant said, “ought implies can,”

Source: Ethicists agree on who should get treated first for coronavirus — Quartz

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