- Huttan
- May 15, 2013
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Articles from 2 years ago
I think this raises some interesting but troubling questions about morality and ethics. Should Anthony have been denied the heart? We know the ultimate result was a net negative. The young man went on to waste his life, harm others, and ultimately died with a heart that could have gone to someone else. But the people who advocated for him didn't know that at the time. Was it just, given the knowledge they had at the time? The SCLC advocated on his behalf, when he was 15. At the time, he had a history of getting in to fights at school. They even tried to link him to a mentor.
I actually am not sure what the right thing to have done was. So many children are headed in the same direction. And some of them do make it. With the right combination of supervision, parenting, mentoring, and that pesky "free will" if that is even a thing. I worry that the next Anthony will be rejected for a transplant who could have turned his life around. There is also the inequality factor of how he got to be a bad kid in the first place. Perhaps its because he didn't have the same opportunities as children with better luck, not living in poverty. And where was the parent? How in the gently caress was he allowed to be unsupervised and able to get a gun? Who gave him a gun? Should we be deciding that kids with emotional and behavior disabilities should be given the automatic death sentence of being denied a transplant? Would we will that standard for everyone with a disability?
quote:People who receive transplants must adhere to strict medication regimens to keep their bodies from rejecting the organs. A person can be disqualified if hospital officials think the patient won’t stick to that regimen, has no support system or an inability to pay for expensive anti-rejection medicines.
Race-baiting activists made it such a polarized issue that the hospital ended up reversing their decision.
Sometimes, the correct decision is the unpleasant and politically-incorrect one.
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