Nailed it.
>> The important fact is that the sister MAY refuse. Leftists want to install a situation where she would be forced to donate, and it should be the goal of those on this board to prevent that from happening. The Evil sibling is less important than the Evil government.
> Nailed it.
I'll start by stating I do not support compulsory donation -- but the question raises a coupla interesting ethical points:
1) Voluntary donation of organs &tc after death. You have made your wishes known before your death to donate. Family and/or "interested persons" disagree. Whose will should trump whose? (This debate is happening now in NZ with an attempt to establish a central registry for willing donors. Currently doctors, nurses, family & friends can and do trump your will)
2) Why shouldn't donation be compulsory? There are plenty of things in life that are:
- you are compelled to give a breath sample whether you are guilty or not when the cops pull you over
- you are compelled to give an evidential sample of breath and/or blood if the first test fails
-if you are in a car accident and bleeding, they will take a blood sample for evidential purposes before they start treatment if alcohol is suspected to be a factor
- the coroner will perform an autopsy on your corpse if cause of death is suspicious -- whether you wanted one or no
- one way or another, your corpse will be disposed of somehow upon your death: your range of choices does not permit you to allow your corpse to rot out in the open
- plenty of times the Government has decided to Draft able-bodied people into the Armed Forces, where you will potentially donate 100% of yourself for as long as your term of service is: and that might just include getting blown to smithereens
- each year the various levels of Government dip their hands into your pockets and appropriate money from you by way of taxes: and these taxes take priority over every other spending that you do, including subsistence
We already don't own 100% of our bodies all of the time, nor do we own 100% of our possessions all the time, and haven't for many years.
So conceptually why *not* declare all organs from everyone to be public property for transplant purposes once you are dead?
And why not compel every competent adult who is able, to donate blood and marrow at least once per year, as a tax or a national service? (Naturally, some narrow exemptions to apply for medical or religious reasons).
I don't see that these concepts are particularly "Rightist" or "Leftist" -- they happen under governments of all stripes already. They may be odious concepts to some but I believe this odium spans the political spectrum.