Posted on 06/13/2013 4:07:55 AM PDT by tobyhill
Government needs to stay out of medicine!
Her comment about “someone will live, someone will die” was talking about the scarcity of organs - in other words, someone will get a lung and live, and someone else will not get that same lung and may die as a result. I don’t think she was proving that she believes herself to be the sole arbiter of life and death; to the contrary, I understood her comment as saying that it was a difficult situation, and she did NOT want to intervene and be the person who decides who lives and who dies.
Quite right. Of course someone else died because this girl took their place on the list, but since we don’t know the identity of that person, no one cares. Besides, that person was likely not as cute.
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