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One utilitarian perspective is that a world where you are at risk of your vital organs being reallocated at any time is such a bad world (deep anxiety for every
by mherdeg 5y ago
One utilitarian perspective is that a world where you are at risk of your vital organs being reallocated at any time is such a bad world (deep anxiety for everyone all the time) that organ seizure would never be a reasonable policy choice.
On the other hand:
(1) Maybe this isn't true and we just think organ harvesting is an evil because of our innate status quo bias. Maybe like in Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' if there were a class of people who could be harvested at any time they would just ... Accept it and deal with it.
(2) maybe we do live in that world? People continued to travel to, work in, and do business with a place where there was credible evidence of an underclass who was being harvested ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Gong_practitioners_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go... )
(3) what if there were one person who just LOVED forcible organ harvesting, loved it ten billion times more than every other human on the planet hated it? Morally a utility maximizer would choose to bend to that monster's preference.