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That's not the case. Otherwise living organ donation would be unethical. Clearly it is ethical even though it contains much more risk to the donor than a COVID

• tialaramex 5y ago
  Donation by competent adults comes down to a similar rationale to cosmetic surgery. The donor says this is specifically what they want to happen, the medic is confident that the donor understands the risk and consents to this procedure despite it, the benefit is to their well being. The extent to which humans are usually capable of meaningful consent is dubious, which is also a problem in other aspects of life, but that's the best option we have available. Donation in children or the mentally disabled is a big problem because now we're dealing with trying to guess whether a person has the capacity to understand and then consent to the risk. On the one hand it might seem safer to always say "No" but this denies their autonomy.