The child might die at any moment, struck by a car or a parent or measles. The woman might have had ten, twenty years left. It is a false justification to value the lives of the young over the old; it presumes we can anticipate potential, and although we can predict we cannot know.
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An old woman having her life stolen is as much a tragedy as losing a child.
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An old woman having her life stolen is as much a tragedy as losing a child.
[And he sounds totally uninterested as he says the words.]
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[He says that despite getting the feeling you wish for him to repeat after you, Sherlock.]
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