Poll: Kill one to save ten?

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Nurb

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this question seems along the same lines of continuing the death penalty despite innocents being executed.
 

bad rider

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Nope, If you were dickish enough to damage your organs beyond repair why the hell should you get some other guys?
 

Tri Force95

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Cliff_m85 said:
No, I would save the man. My job is to save lives, not kill people off to prevent deaths. It's not my fault the ten people die, but it would be if that one individual dies.
I agree with you, killing a random person, whom you have no right to do when you can save him, to save 10 others isn't right. You're supposed to save people, not kill one to save the others.
 

bad rider

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DarkRyter said:
Yes, I probably would. As a doctor, I should always make the decision for the good of my patients. If I had to choose between one or ten, the ten would win out.

If I could, however, I would much prefered to have asked the donor about it.
Surely that absoloutely breaks the hippocratic oath. You'd be intentionally harming one of your patients. Then again looking at the wiki abortion is wrong in the modern one so technically you may have already broken it. Unless you follow the old one, then your breaking it for the first time. Man I just confussled myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath
 

Agayek

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If the donor is conscious, I would ask him and go with what he said. If not, I would save the one man.

It is never acceptable to sacrifice anyone without they're making the choice. As such, I would save the man and try to find other organs for the other 10 patients.
 

flare09

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I don't think I would legally be allowed to let someone die. If he were to die, I would give those organs to those people. But there are other donors out there.
 

SmartIdiot

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I was almost going to take this thread seriously and then I saw this post...
notoriouslynx said:
I would kill him than eat the organs infront of the people that need it.
Yep. I totally would aswell.
 

Godavari

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I would definately save the one man.
A computer thinks with cold logic, and says "Kill the one to save the ten."
A human thinks with compassion and says "I will never kill another person."
 

Neonbob

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berethond said:
Let's go back to me being a doctor -- totally unlikely.
knowing me, I'd be much more likely to run around naked stabbing people while singing Tiny Dancer.
"Hold me closer, tiny dancer!" *stab*

So...I guess... killing all eleven, plus three hundred or so.

I demand the "Run around naked stabbing people while singing Tiny Dancer." poll option.
I love you, berethond.
I was going to ask if just killing all of them was an option.
Because I could never be a doctor.

But, for the sake of the thread, I'll answer...
I'd say that some other doctor gets to make the choice, then sit back and watch as whatever decision he makes slowly destroys his life.
 

Knight Templar

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Apart from the Hippocratic oath I don't kill people. the end doesn't justify the means, letting a person die who is trusting me to save his life kust so I can harvest him is disgusting.
It's not saving people, it's killing a person.
 

Roamin11

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Me being a doctor the oath would not let me kill someone, it goes against the oath you need to change the situation.
 

KarumaK

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I get paid either way, so I'd save the guy and avoid the lawsuits and eventual imprisonment. Somehow I doubt murdering someone to be in the job description.

Probably scar the ten for life anyway once they found out that someone was murdered to keep them alive.
 

theklng

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Flunk said:
It violates the Hippocratic oath so no. I'm disgusted with anyone who said yes, I think you all should be cut up for organ transplants as ironic punishment.
stop being so goddamn self righteous. everyone has the freedom to express their opinion.

the situation is far too biased to have a choice, because it has its roots in a profession governed by restrictions that prohibit certain actions. rather, OP should have posted the abstraction of the question; albeit there would only be one answer to that question: "depends on the context of a situation".

this question is at any rate too shallow to answer by the given criteria.

mdk31 said:
op included so he can learn something from my post.

also, while i'm at it:

Knight Templar said:
Apart from the Hippocratic oath I don't kill people. the end doesn't justify the means, letting a person die who is trusting me to save his life kust so I can harvest him is disgusting.
It's not saving people, it's killing a person.
you don't know enough about the given situation to make these kinds of assumptions. the person legally isn't trusting you to save his life. neither do i suspect you having enough merit from medical education to make a trusted decision even if he or she did. don't judge situations that are out of your reach.
 

Dogstile

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avykins said:
Well considering that the first and main part of the hippocratic oath is "Do no harm" if you did do it you would not be worth the title Doctor.
technically your not harming the man, you're just not helping

if you want to say that you're harming the man by not helping, then you are technically harming the other 10 because you can not help them

hippocratic oath is confusing at times, huh :p