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devalis
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You are a member of a surgical team at the World's Greatest Hospital. All the patients listed below MUST receive a heart transplant TODAY or else they will die. There are only TWO hearts available and YOU must decide, from this list, which two patients will be heart-donor recipients.
1. A seventy year old female U.S. Senator credited with creating and protecting the nation's first National Health Plan.
2. A Hispanic ex-offender who is a very successful drug dealer. His "business" allows him to hire community youth, support his entire extended family of fifteen, and be percieved by the community as a leader.
3. An African-American Vietnam veteran and amputee who created a national training program for people with disabilities. He is under investigation for possible embezzlement of program funds to support a known gambling addiction.
4. A Caucasian fifteen year old female who tested intellectually "gifted". She is on drugs and supports her habit through prostitution.
5. A scientist/researcher who is know to be closely associated with white-supremacist groups and is very close to discovering a cure for AIDS.
6. An ex-Roman-Catholic priest who works with small children in a day-care center. He is a homosexual and a strong gay-rights advocate. His lover recently tested HIV-positive.
Personally, I found it hard to choose 2. I would most definitely go with #5 becaues despite what his beliefs may be, could save the most people in the long run, more than he would hurt, most likely. The other choices are harder. #1 is seventy years old and she's already done her part. Yes, maybe she could do more, but she's on her way out, you know? #2, while being a pillar of the community, doesn't seem like much of a stable pilliar considering that everything he's building is based off of drug-traffiking. What kind of example is that setting? #3, like #1, has to be pretty old if he's fought in Vietnam, and he's already done something for the world. #4, though she has her whole life ahead of her, is on drugs and is a prostitute. I would never give a transplant to an addict, that's a waste, they'll most likely die from their addiction if not from something related to it. #6 would be perfect but for the fact that his loved tested HIV-positive, which means that he most likely is HIV-positive as well and on his way out. But, if we save the scientist with the cure, then #6 would be okay, so if I absolutely had to chose another one, it would be #6.
Who would you choose, and why?
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2 and 5
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devalis
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I had thought more people would be interested in this...
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what about the rest of the list? i'd go with #7 and #2614; the underground dynamite kingpin of the south seas, 31 years and going on 12 with a silver pygmy wife and 8000 children or cows. the other was a extra-tabasco preharmonic-physiciisthitist with a case of the pocky pock not your arrows sam. she's about 12 years old and growing like the fiercy plankton along the wicked ass shores of nebraska-denmark.
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i'd go with 4 and 5 for the novelty alone: a whiz-kid hooker and a redneck who cares about people with AIDS are creatures too rare to let die.
now that those two have new hearts, i'd like to offer a some replacements to the donor list:
#8: hal, a pro-life transgender physicist with bad credit and a heart of gold. although he served time in the 70s for shoplifting and arson, he spends his free time mending the ankles of injured sparrows and reading to blind hemophiliacs.
#9: johnny cash, the man in black, who reportedly killed a man in reno just to watch him die.
#10: a time-traveling zebra
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the decision wouldn't be in my hands, i would have to go by the regional priority list and give them to the two assigned as the highest priorities, if i deviate from the list my ethics would be called into question, the administrators would ream me a new asshole and i might lose my license to practice or at the very least face a stiff penalty and censure regardless of how wrong i might think the order on the list might be
then i'd go set stuff on fire
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#2 and #5... i'd hope that #2 was just a pot dealer, and if he's considered a pillar it's a good chance... #5 again, could save many people... the genius hooker? hell, i'm of "gifted" intelligence and i haven't done a damn thing to improve the world...
but the time traveling zebra could have *both* hearts. *wraps brain around the dynamics of a time-traveling zebra... just a normal zebra... except sometimes poof! it's twenty years ago.*
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For me the choice would be simple and non-character judging.
Method #1: Most likely it would have been known that these people needed heart transplants, so whomever was on the list for a heart first gets the first heart and the second the second heart.
Method #2: If there was no organ list, then whomever first came to the hospital first would receive the first heart and the second heart.
Method #3: Or if #1 & #2 dont work Biologically speaking whomever would be deemed more recptive to the operation would be the canidates to receive the organs.
I dont think if i was forced into making a decision based solely upon judging anothers character or who they live with, etc. would be a fair way to make a decision.
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keep the hearts to sell on the black market.
claim patients died of complications during surgery.
spend money received from black market heart sale on bimbo and new condo.
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