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- From: eeb1@quads.uchicago.edu (e elizabeth bartley)
- Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-liberty
- Subject: Re: interesting [and scary] blurb...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.014556.3261@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 01:45:56 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.201511.24935@inmet.camb.inmet.com> <1992Dec31.205128.11386@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan2.010835.14216@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
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- In article <1993Jan2.010835.14216@inmet.camb.inmet.com>
- porges@beretta.camb.inmet.com (Don Porges) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec31.205128.11386@midway.uchicago.edu>
- >eeb1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
-
- >>I think at the very least you've got to admit this depends on the
- >>probability. I've signed my driver's license card as an organ donor;
- >>if I were to find that there was a 30% chance one of my organs would
- >>save the life of a mass murderer, I'd change that status, and pretty
- >>darn quick. Is that wrong? When you consider the net benefits and
- >>losses, it saves lives.
-
- >Well, if that were really the case, I guess it would be different. I
- >don't see the world as having that high a concentration of people whose
- >deaths should be celebrated.
-
- Neither do I; that's why I'm an organ donor. But I can hypothesize a
- situation in which one had something like very detailed blood types
- and I knew there were a very small pool of potential recipients for my
- organs, a couple of which were mass murderers....
-
- --
- E. Elizabeth Bartley | "This is a world of compensation; and
- he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom
- to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long
- retain it." - Abraham Lincoln
-