PHIL226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Free Rider Problem, Conscription, Organ Donation
3 Aug 2016
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What are the 2 main objections re opting in: results in organ shortage. If you would have been willing, but you never took the time to opt in, then your organs will not be donated (unless your family is available to consent). What are the 2 main objections re opting out: still results in organ shortage. Someone willing to be organ recipient, but unwilling to be donor: note: this is different from someone who simply is unable to contribute to those collective efforts, no exploitation (from live organ sales) A wish for bodily integrity after death (ibid, 184) Reply 1: dead bodies decay very quickly (ibid) Reply 2: after a person dies, the person whom he or she was ceases to exist . 4: how can we recap the above 2 arguments, claim 1: all benefits and no. Claim 2: if there is harm, it is outweighed.
