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Old 02-26-2011, 02:03 AM   #17
SM9WI8oI

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Good question, who does appoint that panel then and make that determination? And who sets forth the criteria? Do you honestly trust some board of bureaucrats to be good at this? Apply the TSA model to organ transplantion and tell me it will work out just fine.

But then again, it'll be easy to figure out for the extreme cases - 89 year old that weights 900lbs and drinks a fifth of vodka each day versus a 12 year old. But what about the harder cases? 49 year old mother of 2 and divorced once versus 47 father of one married since age 26? Do we choose to kill the mom or the dad? Hmmmm. Who's got a degree? Who makes more each year that we can tax? But wait, we need to have a study to ensure that distribution of organs is equitable across every possible hyphenated prefix we can place before the "American" identifier in one's ethnicity unless we want a crowd in the streets chanting "no justice no peace" and "hey hey ho ho there is where the catchy slogan goes". Back to the extreme cases, did I mention the 89 year old was a genius professor at an Ivy League school in their engineering department while the 12 year old has been comatose since a car accident happened 8 years ago? Maybe none of these people qualify because there's a 34 year old marathon runner that just popped up in better health than anyone else on the list. The 34 year old is also a Hollywood celeb we've loved since she was a child star on Disney. So who do we assign death then? Answer quick because Mr. Reaper is waiting. Oh, by the way, where do you factor in on the list?
Seems like you are arguing against me...but you are arguing against points I'm not making.

While the whole values clarification stuff is interesting...I agree that it opens up a whole can of worms regarding ethics...this is what the old "lifeboat" exercises used to do....i.e. you have sinking ship with 20 people, lifeboat only holds 15, who do you keep, etc. I do NOT in any way think we should get into the business of assigned the value of one life over another, interesting as that may be.

Can't you remove your blinders for long enough to figure out what kind of road this leads to? Evidently not. Well, if you could remove you blinders long enough to read what I actually wrote and not what you have assigned to me...you would probably see that you are arguing against something I"m not saying.

Nobody said 100% of transplant requests are staffed. And I'm saying we need not go down the path of appointing some organization to gerrymander decisions as to who does and doesn't get a body part. I agree with that...but I don't agree that "first come, first serve" is the "only fair way to do it"...that there may be another more fair way...and it's worth looking into. I did NOT say that the youngest should get it.

The current system is a cold, sterile method of choosing but far more valid than some agency tucked away out of sight out of mind screwing it up. ...and no one is suggesting some agency should exist. Well, not me anyway.
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