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This is a utilitarian-ish argument. I would consider the following questions: - Who owns your organs before death? - Who owns your organs after death? - I as
by marcell 9y ago
This is a utilitarian-ish argument. I would consider the following questions:
- Who owns your organs before death?
- Who owns your organs after death?
- I assume you are opting-out from a government mechanism for organ donation. What is the origin of the government's power to claim your dead organs unless you opt-out?
- Majestic121 9y ago1. You do 2. No one does 3. The origin for the claim is that you accept to give your organs, and it is that way by default in a lot of countries because most people either don't care or actively want to save lives. If you don't want to give them for whatever reason, you can always opt out I would also like to point out that this whole point seems like debating for the pleasure of rhetoric : there is no specific downside to having organ donation opt out by default, as a lot of countries do, for example France since 76. And if you don't agree with organ donation, just opt out. There is, however, a huge upside : saving a lot of lives.