I feel like that's the kind of nuance you learn as you get older. Black Panther might inspire some pre-teens to start down the path to science, and someday they'll probably see October Sky or whatever the current equivalent is.
You have to figure if the most public and controversial cases result in a halfassed investigation and some paid vacation, the ones that never make the news probably don't even go that far.
I feel like it's several steps removed from that. All of civilization is about weighing cost versus benefits -- there's no reason to assume we'd cut old people loose first over the disabled.