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In Israel, Potential Organ Donors Could Jump the Queue
laron writes "In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently this initiative faces resistance from Orthodox rabbis, who hold that organ donation is against religious law. Jacob Lavee, director of the heart transplant unit at Israel's Sheba Medical Center, and one of the draftees of this new law, hopes that a broader pool of organs will ultimately benefit everyone, but acknowledges that one of his primary motivations is 'to prevent free riders.' (Apparently receiving an organ is OK under religious law.)"
I don't mind religion, so long as it doesn't harm anyone, but people who would actually think, "We would rather our child die then be given medicine." I just don't understand.
Suddenly "Will no one think of the children!" is a good thing on Slashdot? Well, that's news.
Why is it always the same old bullshit when people want to control others? First you try to assert some bogus financial interest in imposing your way -- "But what he wants to do will lower my property value or cause my insurance or tax rates to rise." If that canard doesn't work, claim an interest (as an uninvolved third party with no legal standing) on behalf of "the children" even (or especially) if you were too selfish to have any of your own.
Beautiful, fucking beautiful. Buncha goddamned hypocrites.
The very fact that your doctors can receive money for your organs shows a flawed system.
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These are Jews we are talking about.
They are quite happy to take millions in support from the US every year, and then give them (and any possibility of peace with their neighbours) the finger.
I'm sorry to say that I've lost any respect for them as a people. The atrocities of 1939 - 45 were unforgiveable, but that doesn't give them the right to fuck with the rest of the world in some kind of payback.
About time the US stopped supporting these barbarians and let them and the Arabs work out their own problems from a level playing field.
Once they were as poor as their counterparts, I'm sure a semblance of peace would emerge in double quick time.
Amusing? Hardly. More like anti-Semitic.
In reality Palestinians do get treated in Israeli hospitals. Another thing... care to guess who some Saudi royalty turn to when they need high quality medical care? That's right. Israel.
See a dogma, see a contradiction, make up absolute bullshit to keep dogma.
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I abhor religion in principle
Your principles, their dogmas.
I abhor the time I spend reading your angry posting when you could say that you abhor religion in principle (dogmatic in other words) in the beginning and save me time for something better, such as a fart.
For I like farting, in principle.
Given that no Arabs in the region want peace and that every Arab nation in the Middle East tacitly, if not explicitly, supports the acts of terror that make peace impossible, I'd say Israel is doing OK.
You are a Dr. You can either :
A) Spend hours saving one child's life, Or
B) You can let that child die, but save three other children.
What do you do?
Follow up:
Do you want your child to be a donor?
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Play the victims again - it works every time.
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