Reply #11: homicides are most likely 100% irrelevant

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the relevany question is NOT 'what is the different life expectancy between blacks and whites' when considering raising the retirement age. if blacks have a lower life expectancy because fewer people make it to retirement age at all, then the system is ALREADY biased, but raising the retirement age wouldn't make it worse (at least not based on the single statistic of blacks dying before 65.

what IS relevant is 'do blacks who survive to the age of 65 still die off faster than whites who survive to the age of 65'.

i would think that homicide victims are mostly under the age of 65, so homicides would be a small factor in the real question. thinks like access to good health care, nutrition over the lifetime, smoking habits, etc., probably all are more significant than homicides.


that being said, raising the retirement age might well be racially biased, in fact i suspect it is; my point is simply that the analysis shown does not support this conclusion.