Should an altruistic organ donor be allowed to restrict their donation to a specific group of people? (e.g. women, gingers) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by night_of_knee@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] bh11235@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

The way I see it you are under no obligation to bite that bullet just because of your understandable sentiment. It may be true that e.g. "My organs won't go to Catholics" and "My organs won't go to serial killers" are two sentences that have a similar structure, but this doesn't at all mean they have the same moral weight, or that we as a society are compelled in some way to treat them equally.

[-] TheEntity@kbin.social 2 points 1 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.

[-] bh11235@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What a deplorable take. Is the 10-year-old child living in the USA who says "I love my country" morally responsible for the war in Iraq? Is the 10-year-old Saudi Arabian saying "I love my country" morally responsible for 9/11? By what mechanism does your standard spare any human being at all, ever, from total moral condemnation?

[-] TheEntity@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A 10-year-old isn't a willful supporter of these causes.

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