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"Against medical ethics" is a similar blurb written by a med student: http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html L

"Against medical ethics" is a similar blurb written by a med student: http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html http://squid314.livejournal.com/285785.html Let's say inmates on death row aren't getting kidney transplants. A normal person might think "Well, that makes sense. There are only a few kidneys available, and if we give one to a death row inmate who we then fry the next day, we've just lost a kidney that could potentially give a dying person decades of healthy life for literally zero gain." Does it surprise you that there are medical ethicists who are ABSOLUTELY OUTRAGED that death row inmates are not receiving kidney transplants? And this isn't the result of me looking for some outrageous cause to cherry-pick and put in an article. This is the result of me typing "medical ethics" into Wikipedia, clicking on the first name I saw, and seeing the sentence "He has urged that death row inmates be eligible to receive kidney transplants" in the bio.

forkandwait 16y ago
Everyone has their own "will to power" -- for Atilla the Hun, it's death and mayhem; for a gangsta, it's money and ho's (or whatever, I don't know any gangstas personally); etc. Ironically, though, priests and therapists and ethicists have their own (whiny) will to power, and get a rush feeling their way of life taking over in the world, just like a warlord gets the same rush with new territory, etc (and I get the same rush with a new script or query). "Genealogy of Morals" deserves any credit for this idea, not me.
ceejayoz 16y ago
Said ethicists may have noticed that a whole lot of death row inmates seem to be getting exonerated lately.
- wazoox 16y ago
  And said ethicists may also be of the prevalent opinion among civilised people, that death penalty is an abomination.
- AngryParsley 16y ago
  That's a separate problem. One can be against the death penalty and against giving death row inmates kidneys. Even if all the death row inmates in the world are innocent, giving them kidneys still wastes kidneys. (Since most of them will not be exonerated.)

forkandwait 16y ago

Everyone has their own "will to power" -- for Atilla the Hun, it's death and mayhem; for a gangsta, it's money and ho's (or whatever, I don't know any gangstas personally); etc. Ironically, though, priests and therapists and ethicists have their own (whiny) will to power, and get a rush feeling their way of life taking over in the world, just like a warlord gets the same rush with new territory, etc (and I get the same rush with a new script or query). "Genealogy of Morals" deserves any credit for this idea, not me.

ceejayoz 16y ago

Said ethicists may have noticed that a whole lot of death row inmates seem to be getting exonerated lately.

wazoox 16y ago
And said ethicists may also be of the prevalent opinion among civilised people, that death penalty is an abomination.
AngryParsley 16y ago
That's a separate problem. One can be against the death penalty and against giving death row inmates kidneys. Even if all the death row inmates in the world are innocent, giving them kidneys still wastes kidneys. (Since most of them will not be exonerated.)