I have some hesitation around the age limits issue, as it is pretty close to age-ism, which I faced as early as my 40's in the tech industry, and my 50's in academia (no one will hire you for a full time position if you're over 35.) But having some objective standard like health as a criterion would be good. The operative word here is, of course, "objective." I don't care what his personal qua ... er, "doctor" claims, Trump is morbidly obese and has the mental acuity of a bent desert fork. Biden, on the other hand, is still sharp and in good shape (better than me, I suspect), despite being 3 years older than Jaba-the-Trump.
I can't argue with that. I've been the victim of ageism myself, so I wrote this with some trepidation. Yet the status quo is unsustainable. I'm not saying that my suggestion is the answer, only that their needs to be some serious discussion undertaken about what to do when someone is clearly no longer in full possession of their faculties.
I have some hesitation around the age limits issue, as it is pretty close to age-ism, which I faced as early as my 40's in the tech industry, and my 50's in academia (no one will hire you for a full time position if you're over 35.) But having some objective standard like health as a criterion would be good. The operative word here is, of course, "objective." I don't care what his personal qua ... er, "doctor" claims, Trump is morbidly obese and has the mental acuity of a bent desert fork. Biden, on the other hand, is still sharp and in good shape (better than me, I suspect), despite being 3 years older than Jaba-the-Trump.
I can't argue with that. I've been the victim of ageism myself, so I wrote this with some trepidation. Yet the status quo is unsustainable. I'm not saying that my suggestion is the answer, only that their needs to be some serious discussion undertaken about what to do when someone is clearly no longer in full possession of their faculties.