imontheloose
Life is death
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If we assume every life has equal worth, and that letting someone die when you could have saved them is at least nominally permitting it, then it is at least somewhat evil to allow patients to die waiting for organs.
Millions have perfectly serviceable organs yet they are buried, burned, or left to fail in bodies that slowly join the receiving end. We still treat kidneys as if they are a some sort of capricious natural resource when they are something we could, in principle, requisition.
Oh boy, the National Organ Lottery has been awaiting you. Once a week, using the same database the NHS already has for GP registration, blood types, and hospital records, a set of healthy adults are randomly selected. A retrieval team arrives, they are sedated, killed, and disassembled; their organs couriered straight into those who would otherwise die in the nearing future. One body in, several out. The human op-amp. The family receives compensation funded by the healthcare costs avoided. Your QALYs were simply redistributed.
Accepting the premise that all lives are equal no longer allows you to claim one has a special claim to continued existence when others can be saved in their place. The inconvenience of being harvested does not outweigh the amount of lives saved.
We could have it nicely played after Friday's Lotto as Saturday's Organ Draw.
@wishIwasSalludon @Jason Voorhees @Gengar @JohnDoe @Mess
Millions have perfectly serviceable organs yet they are buried, burned, or left to fail in bodies that slowly join the receiving end. We still treat kidneys as if they are a some sort of capricious natural resource when they are something we could, in principle, requisition.
Oh boy, the National Organ Lottery has been awaiting you. Once a week, using the same database the NHS already has for GP registration, blood types, and hospital records, a set of healthy adults are randomly selected. A retrieval team arrives, they are sedated, killed, and disassembled; their organs couriered straight into those who would otherwise die in the nearing future. One body in, several out. The human op-amp. The family receives compensation funded by the healthcare costs avoided. Your QALYs were simply redistributed.
Accepting the premise that all lives are equal no longer allows you to claim one has a special claim to continued existence when others can be saved in their place. The inconvenience of being harvested does not outweigh the amount of lives saved.
We could have it nicely played after Friday's Lotto as Saturday's Organ Draw.
@wishIwasSalludon @Jason Voorhees @Gengar @JohnDoe @Mess
