crouching_sin: (you'll be pleadin' while you're bleedin')
Naoya ([personal profile] crouching_sin) wrote2015-03-10 03:11 pm

[Anon] [Text]

Here's a question for you all. It's something that I read a while back, and I'm interested in your answers. Anonymous is fine, if you want.

There are five patients in a hospital. All of them are dying due to complications with various organs. All of them will die within the next day or so if they don't get an organ transplant. Magic won't save any of them, incidentally, if you were hoping to use that.

A young backpacker comes into the hospital or a checkup. He has no relatives, and he is in excellent health. As it happens, you, the surgeon on duty, notice that he is a perfect match for all five of the patients.

Assuming the backpacker does not give consent, is it morally permissible to cut him up and transfer the organs to the other patients? These are not organs that the backpacker can live without, so he'll die if you do.

I'm interested to hear what you think.
babel_hacker: (Side Glance | Curiosity)

[personal profile] babel_hacker 2015-03-16 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. The odds of a mechanic or a scientist from the future coming here is pretty low. If they do come, I'd like to learn from them and adapt their knowledge for my timeline.

[Seeing the Arbok coming closer, Flonette looks alarmed by him and get up to move closer to Atsuro on the couch. Atsuro blinks and look down from where he's standing, and glance over at where his Dedenne is looking at.]

...Don't worry about it, Flonette. I'm here and you can probably handle it.
presentyourbadge: (You won't get away with that.)

[personal profile] presentyourbadge 2015-03-16 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
It doesn't really matter. You can't pick and choose which lives are more important than others. Maybe it's not fair, but what's fair isn't always what's right.
Edited 2015-03-16 21:11 (UTC)
presentyourbadge: (Over the shoulder.)

[personal profile] presentyourbadge 2015-03-16 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, what exactly IS fair, and what exactly IS right? You end up just arguing semantics. You have to do the things that seem fair or right to you, based on how you personally interpret those things. And sometimes you do things that aren't fair to you but are right for others, and that's just how it goes. It all depends on the things you value most, I guess.
stitchedupbodyguard: (not sure if)

[personal profile] stitchedupbodyguard 2015-03-16 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Makes sense. I don't usually go to school.
no_ufo_ending: (dogs)

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2015-03-17 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
It's not nice. Those organs don't belong to you.

[Here's our horror game protag concerned with being nice. Okay.]
ajustcaws: (to right the unrightable wrong)

[personal profile] ajustcaws 2015-03-17 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
well, you should try to save everyone without hurting people, so you just need to find a way to do both.
no_ufo_ending: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2015-03-17 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think a patient who is a day away from dying of complications would have time to recover from a surgery that serious anyway. Everybody dies.
evilfrenzy: (♟ let me tell you a thing)

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[personal profile] evilfrenzy 2015-03-17 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
They were faced with the option of killing one person to save another? I highly doubt it was the exact same situation as the one you described, after all.

As for the second person...what did they mean by that?
no_ufo_ending: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2015-03-17 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
A question like this has a lot of parts to it.

What would you do?
in_praetego: <user name=signontheline> ([...] | It's Been a While > Staind)

[personal profile] in_praetego 2015-03-17 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Given his Bible stories, no it might be best if he didn't. ]

No one's perfect. No matter how many times in a day someone prays or how strong their faith in God is, we're still human.
babel_hacker: ([Yuzu] Walking together)

[personal profile] babel_hacker 2015-03-17 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Flonette peeks over at Yurlungur from behind Atsuro. And gives a tentative wave.]
no_ufo_ending: (NOPE)

[personal profile] no_ufo_ending 2015-03-18 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still going to go with no. I wouldn't do it. My gut tells me it's wrong.

[HE'S HAD ENOUGH SACRIFICES TY.]

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