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A hypothetical situation.
Mar. 6th, 2006 09:02 pmA woman is seriously injured (we'll worry about the details of the injury in a minute) and needs an organ transplant. Due to complications, she can't just get any donor; it has to be a rare match of some kind. Finally, a doctor says he's located a match... the catch? The match is in a still-living person, and taking the organ will kill the donor, guaranteed.
Under which of the following circumstances is taking the organ justifiable? Pick any or all, and feel free to qualify your answers. Please check at least one box for each set; if you feel that category doesn't matter, check the "not justifiable" box. But always assume two things: the transplant will kill the donor, and the woman is extremely unlikely to find a match via other means.
EDIT: Judging by some of your answers to the poll, I'm getting the feeling that I wasn't clear. Here's what I interpret a checkmark to mean: that condition alone is sufficient reason to go through with the donation, unless you leave a clarification elsewhere. If you, for instance, check the "Gay" checkbox, that means that given the situation described at the top of the poll, you would consider the donor being gay a sufficient condition to remove the organ, regardless of whether anything else in any of the checkbox lists were true.
Also, assume that (answers to the "The possible donor has:" aside) by default the donor has not given an opinion on the subject of dying to save the woman yet. We are not assuming that the donor is fine with the idea otherwise. (In retrospect, I shouldn't have included that question at all, since the first option is a condition we should have been assuming from the start.)
If you want to revoke/change your answers given that knowledge, say so and I'll repost the poll with adjusted instructions.
[Poll #686172]
Under which of the following circumstances is taking the organ justifiable? Pick any or all, and feel free to qualify your answers. Please check at least one box for each set; if you feel that category doesn't matter, check the "not justifiable" box. But always assume two things: the transplant will kill the donor, and the woman is extremely unlikely to find a match via other means.
EDIT: Judging by some of your answers to the poll, I'm getting the feeling that I wasn't clear. Here's what I interpret a checkmark to mean: that condition alone is sufficient reason to go through with the donation, unless you leave a clarification elsewhere. If you, for instance, check the "Gay" checkbox, that means that given the situation described at the top of the poll, you would consider the donor being gay a sufficient condition to remove the organ, regardless of whether anything else in any of the checkbox lists were true.
Also, assume that (answers to the "The possible donor has:" aside) by default the donor has not given an opinion on the subject of dying to save the woman yet. We are not assuming that the donor is fine with the idea otherwise. (In retrospect, I shouldn't have included that question at all, since the first option is a condition we should have been assuming from the start.)
If you want to revoke/change your answers given that knowledge, say so and I'll repost the poll with adjusted instructions.
[Poll #686172]
