Posted by rainbowbrite on February 28, 2005, at 19:35:41
In reply to Re: (2) One or Six??? » rainbowbrite, posted by alexandra_k on February 28, 2005, at 19:20:12
yes!
The person is not dead, how can he make the decision to end a life? that would be murder, if he has the means to save him! The train is a decsion made based on the best outcome...you have to have at least one person die in the end so do you try to save 6 or let one be hit...hmmm I say one. The 6 people the doctor knows do not have priority over the other person in hospital. That person owns his organs until he dies. the doctor has a moral and ethical duty to save and not think about killing for another. I do not see the two as similar in anyway. The doctor will not be thinking "OH in hawaii there is a heart needed and in california there is a spleen needed....I will just let him die. No nature takes its course with the ones waiting....a doctor is not nature.
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