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LeftishBrit

(41,458 posts)
10. No
Sun Mar 25, 2012, 02:40 PM
Mar 2012

Healthcare should be universal - in the tradition of the man whose name you have selected as a username- and cannot be dependent on a person's 'good character'. What happens if a person is unjustly convicted? I could even imagine people deliberately framing someone for a crime, just in order to deprive them of the right to a transplant and to shorten their life. The same considerations apply as for the death penalty - and here it could well be that someone is essentially sentenced to death for a crime that would never receive the DP in the ordinary way.

Eligibility for a transplant should depend only on medical factors.

Admittedly, I hope that if I ever become a donor (by which time I'd obviously be past caring) that my organs would go to nicer people than a certain recent recipient. Nevertheless, healthcare cannot be made dependent on moral or legal virtue, or where does it end?

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Well they cannot vote or own a firearm Rex Mar 2012 #1
Oh, death panels! rustydog Mar 2012 #2
No nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #3
I fully agree. Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #7
Of course not. TheKentuckian Mar 2012 #4
No. nt ZombieHorde Mar 2012 #5
*sigh* No. n/t X_Digger Mar 2012 #6
of course not mitchtv Mar 2012 #8
No, in my opinion. sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #9
So someone who couldn't pay federal income tax should die? jberryhill Mar 2012 #13
I misread the OP. I will correct my answer. I thought the question was 'should they be eligible'. sabrina 1 Mar 2012 #14
I too read it as eligible left is right Mar 2012 #19
No LeftishBrit Mar 2012 #10
I agree with you. Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #12
Did they cease to be human? jberryhill Mar 2012 #11
No, that penalty should be limited only to people *I* personally dislike. (nt) Posteritatis Mar 2012 #15
They are allowed to get donor organs mainer Mar 2012 #16
No ... etherealtruth Mar 2012 #17
Maybe we should ask Boojata. ret5hd Mar 2012 #18
I don't think that people should be condemned for the rest of their lives for felonies Nikia Mar 2012 #20
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