What if multiple successful donations happen as a result? Does that make you a lifesaver?

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You take a life to potentially save zero, one, or many.

    It would depend of the health state of the victims

    Wrong. Very wrong.

    It is not yours to subtract lives from one another.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      That persons? No, almost certainly not.

      We do, however, have people who have the job of doing so.

      Doctor’s and first responders, in times when there are more patients requiring immediate attention than there are resources available for all of them, literally do life arithmetic.

      The algorithm we’ve decided on prioritizes likelihood of survival over quantity of survival in cases with low information, like a plane crash or an explosion.

      Only a few years ago we had a national incident that required decisions about who to kill to be made rather often, specifically regarding ventilators.
      https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2005689