That ain't the point. It is a delicious conundrum simply because of its complexity and the great ethics questions involved therewith. Do we dose the health care providers first, even if doing so means there are no patients for them to provide health care to? If you have a cholice between giving the elderly or giving the young first access to the immunizations, which one comes first? The elderly are ll gonna die anyway, while the younger and healthier ones may have a greater chance of survival on their own. Do we give the first shot at the drugs to the military so they can be there to protect the survivors from themselves when anarchy reigns?
The speaker chose those words correctly, though perhaps not in PC terms since the phrase is not well-known.
It's actually more a technical term when you get right down to it.
If you google the phrase in quotes you will find a bunch of citations almost all along this line.
