Episode 676: Supernatural Selection (Nuklear Power)
Comments(0) Red Mage: All it required was a cocktail of dangerous, experimental surgery and a willingness to ignore the unnecessary suffering of perfectly innocent beings!
[Hilarious and wrong on so many levels, not only because it conjures up Frankenstein’s monster and Victor Frankenstein (although those are on my mind right now). The two other things coming to my mind are the Hippocratic Oath and an ethical problem involving a patient who comes into a hospital for a routine check-up and above him are five patients who each need a different transplant in order to live.
The problem is that all of those necessary organs are in the patient getting a check-up and the doctor knows it. Therefore, the question is whether or not it would be ethical to remove those organs and save the five lives at the cost of an innocent patient. A great exercise in utilitarian thinking with many variants. BK]
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