Posted by alexandra_k on March 1, 2005, at 14:48:05
In reply to Re: (2) One or Six???, posted by Rach on March 1, 2005, at 3:59:52
> Save the man. That's my job.
But it is also your job to save the other people who are waiting on an organ donation.
PS. Sometimes doing your job can be unethical as when you are employed as a terrorist ;-)
> Besides, there's no guarantee that I will save him. And there's no guarantee that the others won't get organs from somewhere else.Not if you change the case there isn't...
But what if those two things are guaranteed? What would your answer be then???PS. Going with your argument for the first case it would be acceptable for a surgeon to refrain from operating on the man (let him die) as it is okay to 'let die' just not to actively kill...
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