Should we kill coma patients on life support to provide more resources to others?
31-35, M
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bijouxbroussard · F
Agreed.
Curiousguy833 · 31-35, M
I understand that you are saying, but I think these are one of the harder questions we face as humans.
Are you willing to save the life of one human, if you know it will cost the life 10 others?
Are you willing to save the life of one human, if you know it will cost the life 10 others?
bijouxbroussard · F
@Curiousguy833: If that one life was my child or my mother, how could I not ?
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@Curiousguy833: I also understand what you're saying and it isn't always an easy answer, but once you start saying that one individual loses their right to life, for the "collective good," it is a VERY slippery slope. Who decides whose life or lives are more/less valuable? See, if the person in a coma is Trump, these days, and the other ten supposedly receiving more care if we pull his plug are....idk, we'll say Bernie Sanders followers, and the doc likes Bernie, Trump is screwed and the masses cheer because he's gone, right? But, what if the situation is reversed? Say the person in a coma is Bernie and the ones who stand to benefit from his death are Trump followers. The "good doctor" decides Bernie's life is worth fighting for and decides to kill off the ten Trump supporters...all for the sake of the common good right? Again, the mass of people would be happy. But neither choice was ok. ALL of those people deserved the best the doctor could give to save their life and he took an oath promising to do exactly that.
Curiousguy833 · 31-35, M
@Lakesidepoet: I love your answer and would mostly agree, however the question states that it's a "coma" patients which means that we have done everything we can to try and bring them back but nothing is working and we are now in the "hope " territory and are hoping that they get better... but in the mean time there are people coming who are 50/50 and you might be able to save then and answer their families prayers. It does not matter if it's trump or Bernie to the doctor.
It's a question of, do you go with the long shot and try to save both when the chances that you will fail is high.. or focus your energy and save the one that you can
It's a question of, do you go with the long shot and try to save both when the chances that you will fail is high.. or focus your energy and save the one that you can
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@Curiousguy833: Except BOTH are a hope, you just think one's odds are higher than the other's. Do you know how often doctors get it wrong? Or how often something that SHOULD HAVE BEEN an easy and routine procedure to fix someone goes terribly awry and they die?