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If you donate a Kidney to your wife, then get Divorced. can you take that back?
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I think we largely agree the woman is a bitch. But part of the story is that he allegedly donated the kidney to his wife because he thought it would win her heart and save his marriage. That's pretty fucked up and selfish, if true. You don't save someone's life as part of an implied quid pro quo.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
That's pretty much what I'm saying.
Possibly, but that extra supply would come largely from desperate people willing to place their health in jeopardy to get out of financial troubles, and that supply would go disproportionately to the wealthy. I'm not sure if we want to create a system in which the poor become organ harvesting plants for the wealthy.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Maybe pay people ahead of time for agreeing to donate organs when they die.
Does Australia's justice system work differently than ours...?
Shitty motives can still result in positive outcomes. Ideally, he should've saved her life because he loved her even if she didn't want to be with him any more. Barring that, saving her life because he's a selfish doof is the next best thing. Still makes him a selfish doof, though.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
http://www.kidney.org/news/newsroom/newsitemArchive.cfm?id=323
Don't people already offer themselves up as donors after death in considerable quantities? There are problems in that you pretty much need to be right there to collect the meaty bits at the time of death, or they go bad.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Well in that case it's a terrible idea. Scrap it.
Let's just grow organs in vats.
And now we get to the part where embryonic stem cell research is the best means to do that, yet is a politically difficult thing to get done.
Any other ideas I can shoot down?
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
I know. She goes and cheats on him, divorces him, and keeps him from seeing his three kids but boy did he have a lot of nerve giving her a kidney to try and keep the two of them together.
There's absolutely zero functionally ways to make organ donations work with price tags. I was of the opinion that it might work, but after last year witnessing in first hand a panel of hepathologists and transplant specialist answer questions about this it became very clear that this is just not possible. Of the 400 people in that room there wasn't one person that wasn't convinced that it is impossible. It's just dangerous and can't be done.
edit: oops idea shot down already.
So would converting our opt-in system to an opt-out system and it wouldn't involve fucking over the poor.
I dare say there's more going on here.
Her being a bitch is not incompatible with him being a manipulative wanker.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
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You really are the best* mod, Jeff.
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How many cunts would a cuntbucket bucket if a cuntbucket could bucket cunts?
Lord that kid's delivery ruined that line.
She says it all they mostly come out at nighmostly. No pause for dramatic effect.
We should take her kidney's imo.
You heard the man. No more discussion of organ donors or the ethics of giving a kidney to your dying wife. More bad movie puns!
Joking, joking.
Maddie: "I am not!"
Riley: "You're a marsupial!"
Maddie: "I am a placental mammal!"
It's one thing to save someone's life and get nothing for it. It's another to save someones life and they return the favor by fucking you in the ass. She didn't just divorce him. She cheated on him beforehand and is keeping him from his three children. If he'd let her die he'd have his three children and both his kidneys right now. The fact is his life would be better right now by any objective standard if he let her die.
EDIT: That's absolutely right. It would be wrong to pass judgement on someone from an article with a few paragraphs in it.
On the other hand everyone seems to be doing it anyways and I'm not going to miss the bandwagon.
The same as the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop oddly enough.
One... two... three... *NOM*
Whoa whoa, no.
Sure, anyone could opt out of such a thing (And I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that it would be a simple, straight forward process without a bunch of hoops to jump through), but I heartily oppose a program that attempts to get more organs through deceitful intentions. We are not the descendants of criminals.
You must admit, it's a sinister thing, to start claiming a person's own organs by default.
Why is it deceitful? It's not like anyone's saying congress should sneak a bill through then hide the notice in a locked basement with a cougar.
If a person wanted to give up their organs they would have become an organ donor.
Feral's idea is designed to make you put an effort into actually keeping your organs from being given away, and thus discourages people from doing so, because we all know that every step you add to a process is just another opportunity for a person to be turned off to it.
Actually, no, it's designed to ensure that society benefits from apathy rather than be harmed by it.
Because if you're indifferent, then you're unlikely to fill out an organ donor card, yet there's no harm in using your organs after you die.
Not like this, sorry. It is just not ethical.
It may sound good for someone who needs an organ, but obviously they are biased.
And why not?
Because organs belong to the people who made them, and they are the ones who should decide what to do with them, yes, even after they die. Taking them out of their bodies when they have not given any instruction as to how they want them to be handled is the equivalent of grave robbing.
Feral you can lose your house, you can lose your car, you can lose your wife, but please don't lose your mind.