Posted by Gabbi-x-2 on March 2, 2005, at 3:03:47
In reply to Re: (2) One or Six??? » jay, posted by alexandra_k on March 1, 2005, at 21:01:44
> If a child is drowning and you are an able swimmer you could stand on the bank and watch - after all you did not throw her into the water...
I don't see the comparison, in theory you wouldn't be sacrificing a life to save the drowning child.I can't make the assumption that saving 6 is better than one, especially in the case of organ donation. I too see it as 6 individual deaths, and as Jay said, just because one person has organs to donate doesn't obligate one to donate them. It has nothing to do with my ascribing to a certain philosophical theory, if I do, it's coincidental. I don't really have the innate bias that saving human lives is automatically a good thing either, so that makes things more complicated.....
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