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What Is the Forced Organ Donation Hypothetical? (betonit.ai)
4 points by smitty1e 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> The time is almost up when a report is brought to you that a young man who has just come into your clinic for his yearly check-up has exactly the right blood-type, and is in excellent health.

Ignoring the <huge>huge</huge> moral part:

* transplant matching is not so easy, it's not only blood-type that is like a 2^3 classification but a 2^10 or 2^20 classification. Getting 5 people that would day today exactly here is too unrealistic.

* after transplants the live expectancy is lower than a not transplanted person, so you must compare the expected 60 years of the victim with the expected years of the people getting the organs.


Sounds like something dreamed up by the student loan debt collection industry.

/s?




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