An extreme version of this is: What should the German health service do if someone says they are willing to donate a kidney as long as it doesn’t go to a Jew?

On the one hand, nobody is forced to donate a kidney and by forbidding this we’re making things worse for an innocent patient. On the other hand, it can be seen as the state sanctioning this kind of discrimination.

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶
    link
    fedilink
    61 year ago

    Excellent question. I have to put myself in their shoes. I don’t want my kidneys going to… a member of the North Korean dictatorship, or the CCP. Or any of the elite in Dubai. I don’t see anything wrong with my preferences there, so we would have to allow people to discriminate indiscriminately. I guess I would have to be in favour. There are people that I think are more deserving than others. Jeffery Dahmer isn’t getting my organs.

    • Uncategory
      link
      fedilink
      11 year ago

      “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”

      I do not understand the concept of “deserving to live.” I did nothing to deserve life; it was given to me before I could do anything. Some people think that people can forfeit their “right to life” by their actions, but how can someone forfeit a right they never acquired?

      I understand killing for practical reasons, in some cases, but claiming that everyone is born with a right to life that can be taken away is incoherent,

      • TheEntity
        link
        fedilink
        31 year ago

        TBH I’d rather donate to a serial killer that can realistically harm a dozen of people at most, than a person willfully supporting a global child molestation ring harming thousands annually and holding back the society for centuries.

        • Rikudou_SageA
          link
          11 year ago

          Stating facts is racist now, huh? Do you feel that because US and its prison system is fucked, killing Uyghurs is somehow justified? What about 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre? Is it racist to mention it as well?

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
            link
            fedilink
            -31 year ago

            I don’t know what CCP is, but I do know that vast majority of people in China support the Communist Party of China, and that all the western smears against China are rooted in projection of things that are actually happening in the west.