SHOULD WE KILL HEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORGANS?

choices : philosophy : SHOULD WE KILL HEALTHY PEOPLE FOR THEIR ORGANS?

[+] serious ballot by UncleRandy
ACTIVE Sat Nov 22, 08 - Thu Aug 18, 11
November 20th was ''World Philosophy Day'' - an opportunity to contemplate one's very existence.

So ...Suppose Bill is a healthy man without family or loved ones. Would it be OK painlessly to kill him if his organs would save five people, one of whom needs a heart, another a kidney, and so on? If not, why not?

Consider another case: you and six others are kidnapped, and the kidnapper somehow persuades you that if you shoot dead one of the other hostages, he will set the remaining five free, whereas if you do not, he will shoot all six. (Either way, he'll release you.)

If in this case you should kill one to save five, why not in the previous, organs case? If in this case too you have qualms, consider yet another: you're in the cab of a runaway tram and see five people tied to the track ahead. You have the option of sending the tram on to the track forking off to the left, on which only one person is tied. Surely you should send the tram left, killing one to save five.

But then why not kill Bill?

I agree with your point and here's why...
I disagree and here's why...
There is no right or wrong answer.
Philosophy sucks!
They can wait until I'm done with them
Comment:
If Bill's not a White , American, Tax-paying Republican, because I'm an idiot.

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Philosophy sucks!
But just so you know, I'm NOT an organ donor. I read the book, Coma. Nuff said.

by RunsWithScissors on Sat Nov 22, 08 10:06am [+]

Voted : They can wait until I'm done with them
I'm an organ donor, but they'll have to wait.

by skylab on Sat Nov 22, 08 12:22pm [+]

Voted : Comment:
I don't know which of the above four to select, so I will just leave this comment: I am NOT an organ donor because when I went to get my driver license, the attendant told me NOT to be a donor because she has heard the people who take the organs say that some of the crash victims are not always dead and could have survived but they had their "orders" to retrieve organs.

by forgetmenot on Sat Nov 22, 08 12:25pm [+]

Voted : Comment:
In the latter case, I wouldn't have to decide that conundrum one way or the other, because I would either disarm the gunman or die trying. As for the former, NO. Can't condone taking a life anymore.

by Truthseeker013 on Sat Nov 22, 08 2:33pm [+]

Voted : Comment:
The first option requires the murder of Bill absent duress or threat as a driving force, rather a conscious choice of the perpetraitor. Where as the second and third options are preformed ad hoc, as necessatated for the case at hand and not a broad rule.

Is it Bill's responsibility to save the diseased or misfortunate?

Morally, the life of the individual to be sacraficed is equally valued as those who would benefit from his organs. To take one innocent life for the sake of saving a few others (or the entire populace) is wrong ('cept for a willingness from Bill).

The whole idea is proposterous and equivocal to a HJitler mentality.

by passiveson on Sat Nov 22, 08 9:46pm [+]