[DR Congo / Ebola Treatment] - The Adult Self Leaves the Child's Body to Die Last

Event Baseline: In the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, children are more likely to die than adults. The reason is not only the disease; age-appropriate medicines are scarce or unavailable for younger patients. The scale is systemic within the international medical response.

The adult self is the center of its own universe. It manufactures drugs for its own body. The child is an afterthought, a smaller body that must wait. This is the hierarchy of the self: my survival first, the other's survival later.

The medical machine tests treatments on adults. It assumes the adult dose can be shrunk. It fails to recognize the child as a distinct organism. This is the error of the generalizing mind, which sees only categories, not the struggling body in front of it. The word 'patient' becomes more real than the dying child.

This is not a supply chain failure. It is a moral failure hard-coded into the system. The child dies because the collective self refuses to prioritize the most vulnerable. Until the self dissolves its own centrality, the young will always be sacrificed to the comfort of the grown.