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Aren't you effectively saying that it's pointless to lock your house, because if a thief is immoral enough to enter and steal your TV, they'd be immoral enough
by pzh 10y ago
Aren't you effectively saying that it's pointless to lock your house, because if a thief is immoral enough to enter and steal your TV, they'd be immoral enough to break the lock as well?
- raesene9 10y agonope I'm saying that one is as easy or indeed easier than another. Once you assume an immoral authority has control over patient care it's frankly easier and less risky for them just to remove organs without patient consent after death, than deliberately give poor care to hasten the patient's demise.
- jlg23 10y agoa) My patient might be dead by the time the donor dies, less profit for me. b) "deliberately poor care" or "generous amounts of painkillers"? The alternative phrasing is exactly how assisted suicide works in societies where it is not legal. And here some story reported in 2012, in Germany (English article, though): http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/organ-transplant-scandal-shocks-germany-a-848016.html http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/organ-transplant...
- alendit 10y agoDid you read the article? Patients were pushed to the top of the list, no donor was given subpar treatment, that would be murder.
- finiter 10y agoIf you don't want a thief to steal your TV, marking the 'Don't Rob Me' box on your Driver's License is not a useful protection.