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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A person doesn’t need to be in your Dunbar group to still be treated as a person

Not incidentally, sure. But they need to be in your Dunbar group to be seen as a person.

As soon as "treating another person" carries a price, people charged with delivering treatment are going to start falling off of it.

bureaucracy doesn’t have to be dehumanizing

Again, not incidentally. But the impulse in a bureaucracy is towards expediency. You have a large volume of people to manage and a limited amount of time / manpower / resources. So you cut corners in order to mitigate shortfalls or appease overworked staff, because you don't see the consequences of your actions or experience guilt over it.

I think the key would be making sure that even those who don’t get saved still get treated humanely

I don't argue that this is the strictly moral path. But it ignores the biases, the capacities, and the temperaments of the people doing the triage. At some point you need people to do the things. And people routinely put their own comfort ahead of others' health and well-being, because personal comfort is immediate and real while the experiences of others are remote and abstract.