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**FloareTraurne** · 02-26-2011, 12:30 AM

Clever way to try and re-direct the discussion when it stops suiting your narrative. Has there ever been a time when 100% of all in need of a transplant got them? No, nor will there ever. But that isn't the question now is it.

The question is one of changing from first come first serve to a eugenically based system that assigns organs based on the perception of "worth" a person has. I'd thrown in any number of quotes (Margaret Sanger comes to mind) but let's honestly think this through shall we...

How would we determine "worth" in some bizarre system in which a "hot or not" equation were applied to organ transplants? We know historically that such choices were defined along racial lines (ie, think of the Doc that invented blood transfusions and bled to death because the "black" hospital was farther away than the "white" hosipital). We know today, what with genetic-modeling, some parents would seek certain attributes in their prospective embryos. So rest assured, if "worth" is applied to transplants it will be precisely criteria like these that factor into the equation at the expense of percieved "undesirables"...which might include you in that number.

Who determines that "worth"? What determines that "worth"? I know that in this bizarre suicide cult we live in we continually design ways to devalue life but seriously, how do you quantify someone's "worth" as a life?

Is first come first serve sterile and cold? Yes. But realistically it is the only way to ensure anything approaching fairness with a subject like this.

02-26-2011, 12:30 AM	#13
FloareTraurne Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 553 Senior Member	Clever way to try and re-direct the discussion when it stops suiting your narrative. Has there ever been a time when 100% of all in need of a transplant got them? No, nor will there ever. But that isn't the question now is it. The question is one of changing from first come first serve to a eugenically based system that assigns organs based on the perception of "worth" a person has. I'd thrown in any number of quotes (Margaret Sanger comes to mind) but let's honestly think this through shall we... How would we determine "worth" in some bizarre system in which a "hot or not" equation were applied to organ transplants? We know historically that such choices were defined along racial lines (ie, think of the Doc that invented blood transfusions and bled to death because the "black" hospital was farther away than the "white" hosipital). We know today, what with genetic-modeling, some parents would seek certain attributes in their prospective embryos. So rest assured, if "worth" is applied to transplants it will be precisely criteria like these that factor into the equation at the expense of percieved "undesirables"...which might include you in that number. Who determines that "worth"? What determines that "worth"? I know that in this bizarre suicide cult we live in we continually design ways to devalue life but seriously, how do you quantify someone's "worth" as a life? Is first come first serve sterile and cold? Yes. But realistically it is the only way to ensure anything approaching fairness with a subject like this.
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