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And, btw, in this thought experiment my gut feeling is: > What if the neighbor themself has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, an
by mherdeg 4y ago
And, btw, in this thought experiment my gut feeling is:
> What if the neighbor themself has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, and the only thing that will save them is an immediate 30-week stay in the special room?
The neighbor should be allowed to evict the donor, even if this causes terrible outcomes for the donor.
> Does the answer to the above change if the room's special-ness is tied to the neighbor being alive (if they die, no one else can ever use it to regrow organs)?
My answer doesn't change.
> What if the neighbor's own infant child has suddenly developed kidney failure, no transplants are available, and the only thing that will save them is an immediate 30-week stay in the special room; should they be allowed to evict the recovering kidney donor? Does the answer change if the kidney donor has a 1% chance of surviving on dialysis until the room is available again? 10%? 99%?
My answer doesn't change; the neighbor should be allowed to evict the donor.
> If the neighbor is just being selfish and wants their room to be empty because they've decided think it looks better when it's tidy, should that be forbidden?
The donor should be allowed to stay under EMTALA.
> One way or another, if the room is empty at the end of the 40 weeks, should the state use eminent domain to seize the room and force the neighbor to take in gravely ill people from local hospitals, housing them until they are well, for as long as the room is working?
Yes. If there exists a special room which can heal people and if it is idle, the government should seize control of it and distribute its healing ability to help as many people as possible. Ideally we should raise taxes to investigate how this healing room works and replicate it until we can end all death in the world and heal all disease. But in the short term we should immediately maximize its use, and compensate its owner accordingly.