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Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:03PM (#39119708)
Kind of a messed up and far fetched stance no?
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:24PM (#39119938)
I doubt it would be deliberate. It would be a bias.

"He will never wake up, but he can save lives."

Small chance, but why deliberately manifest it against yourself?

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by KolmogorovComp on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:34PM (#39120080)
I agree, that's also why:

- I don't have a partner or kids, chances are they would kill me for inheritance

- I don't have a job, so that people don't want to kill me to get it

- I don't own any physical object, and live in the woods, don't want to be killed for robbery

Small chance, but why deliberately manifest against yourself?

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:42PM (#39120203)
You get something in return for all the risks you listed.

This is why I said "If you are altruistic perhaps".

I'm not and I gain nothing by helping others after I'm dead.

Now if it was the case that in return for being an organ donor I get paid a good chunk of change or some other benefit then sure.

As things stand being an organ donor to me is similar to crossing roads while deliberately paying less attention.

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:50PM (#39120330)
I think this stance can be better known as the mentality of a psychopath no?

Perhaps just of someone who has lived a very sheltered, privileged life and has never had to empathize with anyone else?

More likely it seems like some kind of mental issue related to sociopathy or psychopathy. I am not a psychologist but this view seems to fit my understanding of those diseases.

Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by badsandwitch on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:54PM (#39120387)
Psychopaths are incapable of feeling empathy. I merely restrict empathy to family, friends and people who are in a position to reciprocate. I do feel pity for people who succumb to the mental compulsion to empathize with everyone.
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by MeImCounting on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:23PM (#39120804)
Unsure whether youre an edgy juvenile or if there is actually something wrong with you. Either way I do hope that someday the wonders of modern medicine come up with a way to help sick people who really do think the way you claim to think
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by debacle on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @12:13PM (#39119809)
Welcome to the Internet.
Re:Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope... by oh_sigh on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @04:02PM (#39122602)
Yes. An equally far fetched stance would be that a Social Consciousness villain might come along and start killing people who aren't organ donors, for being selfish.