"Did his kid choose to get a fever? Did he somehow cause his kid to get a fever by choosing the life of a journalist or choosing to live in some expensive American city?"
He certainly chose to not be able to afford getting decent healthcare for his kids fever.
Don't get me wrong I think the system is fucked up and we should do things to fix it. But you know what, the world and the way evolution works is pretty fucked up as well. Open any history book and it is obvious. If people choose to live an idealistic lifestyle and pretend the world is something that it obviously is not, then there are probably going to be consequences.
He certainly chose to not be able to afford getting decent healthcare for his kids fever.
Don't get me wrong I think the system is fucked up and we should do things to fix it. But you know what, the world and the way evolution works is pretty fucked up as well. Open any history book and it is obvious. If people choose to live an idealistic lifestyle and pretend the world is something that it obviously is not, then there are probably going to be consequences.