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Re:Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status by tomjen3 on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:12PM (#3915371)
Organ donation is stupid. It makes you feel good, but how do you prevent your liver from going to an alchoholic who likes to fuck children?

Demand to control your organs and what they are used for.

Re:Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status by dspillett on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:57PM (#3915593)
> Organ donation is stupid.

You would not think that is you or someone you cared about needed a new organ.

> how do you prevent your liver from going to an alchoholic who likes to fuck children?

Er, I think the 1 in x00,000 chance of my organs helping someone like that is a risk worth taking for the much much higher chance they will help decent people.

There is nothing that I can do to stop my organs being donated to people who say dickish things on the Internet like you just have either - and if there were processes available by which I could express a preference there are a lot of people who would jump the queue in front of you should you be needing and otherwise next in line at the time.

You could use exactly the same ludicrous argument to "defend" never giving anything to any charity or other cause.

Re:Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:21PM (#3915402)
> Organ donation is stupid. It makes you feel good, but how do you prevent your liver from going to an alchoholic who likes to fuck children?

I'd imagine that particular combination is reasonably rare, and most donation organizations require alcoholics to demonstrate abstinence from alcohol for 6+ months to be eligible.

Re:Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status by tomjen3 on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:22PM (#3915409)
Ex alchoholic then.

I was personally more concerned with the child-rapist part.

Re:Facebook Is Urging Members to Add Organ Donor Status by ceejayoz on Tuesday May 01, 2012 @01:33PM (#3915466)
I wasn't, mainly because anyone proven to be one is presumably in jail and thus has a much harder time finding a transplant.