Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl...
by barry-cotter on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:48AM
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This thought process is why the idea of positive rights is incoherent.
Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl...
by AdrianB1 on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:30AM
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The right to health is completely made up; bacteria, viruses and cancer don't honor this right and doctors and drug makers don't work for free, so this right and a few similar ones (right to Internet, for example) are just pulled out of someone's rear parts.
That being said, it cannot be used as an argument in a civilized discussion between adults.
Re:New UK Law Mandates Organ Donation by Default Unless Expl...
by barry-cotter on Saturday April 24, 2021 @03:50AM
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So are all the other rights.
> Death: Yes. As practice, you have to start out learning to believe the little lies.
> Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
> Death: Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.
> Susan: They're not the same at all!
> Death: You think so? Then take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and THEN show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. And yet... you try to act as if there is some ideal order in the world. As if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.
I suppose "organ donation" might be better phrased as "organ recovery" then?
You can't use it anymore, and it would go to waste... Hence it should be recovered. People might not have a right to have your own organs specifically, but it's society's duty to implement organ recovery.
Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to provide for everyone's human rights.