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Oath or no, if you could save 3 young people’s lives for one old person’s life, wouldn’t you do it? If I was a doctor I would at least want to, I don’t know whe
by spoonjim 6y ago
Oath or no, if you could save 3 young people’s lives for one old person’s life, wouldn’t you do it? If I was a doctor I would at least want to, I don’t know whether it would be feasible.
- renewiltord 6y agoWell, if you're a doctor, you want to for a fee. Very few organ transplant surgeons work for free.
- kaba0 6y agoAs I said, you only “know” the old person dying in front of you, you are not simultaneously at a children hospital where 3 young people waits for a liver and two kidneys. Hell, not even the liver and kidney transplant happen at the same hospital. So this is indeed a purely hypothetical scenario. And while it may seem like the trolley problem, it is not, because there is a huge indirection in whether those organs can be used at all, are required at this time and whether they will truly save someone else. So instead of the still morally questionable 1-3 trolley problem you instead have one where you can either direct the trolley on a track with one person in sight or another with noone on it. And at the distance, both tracks branch randomly and most of them go through 3 young person, and maybe slightly less kills them in the second case.