Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope for patients

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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