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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.)"
Supertramp forecasted this eventuality in 1979's "Give a Little Bit" (from Breakfast in America). Their prescience continues to astound.
There are no karma whores, only moderation johns
At least the "hardcore brainwashed fanatic suicide bomber"s stand by what they believe and go with it, that I can respect! Even if they are crazy at least they are being good people within those bounds.
On the otherhand, saying you believe one thing but then going crying to science when you are in trouble is horrible. And it is these half-assed religious people that allow the religions to perpetuate. Causing arguably more harm over time.
I never understood why organ donation is opt-in rather than opt-out.
I can understand having religious convictions not to be a donor but the default ought to be "your organs are up for grabs"
People don't just oppose organ donation for religious reasons. Harvesting cadavers for scrap parts to extends the life of people whose time has come? Some people oppose this ridiculous cult of life, trying to extend this miserable existence by partially resurrecting the deceased and stagger on through life for another year or two with a zombie organ or two.
Now, surgeons are already arguing for extracting organs from the dying before they are dead, so that the spare parts are nice and fresh. All that pressure a surgeon is under when a nice and beloved hot chick lies in critical condition, and I'm in there for an in grown toenail... why not let the smelly curmudgeon die to save her. But sure go ahead and pillage my dying carcass. Don't waste the scraps, you could make a nice stew.
For the most part, if it's for medical purposes, pork is fine. Saving a life takes precedence here
How nice. And for more details on various fantasies of ignorant old farts: http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/8213/jewish/Pig.htm
Wearing shoes made of pigskin - cool. Having pigs as pets - not cool. Why? Who cares.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
You don't say whether or not your wife was infected
I'm a minority race. Save your vitriol for white people.
Just one example of said belief here.
But famed jewish philosopher Maimonides had an even more disturbing view. He acknowledged that the foreskin was useful, that it had sexual functions, that removing it hampered one's sexual capacity. And circumcision should be done because of that. I kid you not, that's a guy who thought an inferior sex life was a moral goal. How demented does one have to be, to take that shit seriously?
Circumcision is child abuse.
That's out of context. Palestinians specifically weren't targeted, and the perpetrators weren't acting on behalf of the Israeli government. It's like reading an article about a car accident killing some people and saying "Israel Runs Palestinian Children Over With Cars" on the grounds that the car was being driven in Israel and one of the people killed was a Palestinian child.
Except that the headline follows years of false accusations of the same thing that aren't even based off of real traffic accidents, but were excuses to kill Jews.
In other words, it's an anti-semitic lie, used to foment hate.