PHIL 356 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Rickey Green, Blood Transfusion
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At the end of monday"s lecture, she said that even though the issues that are central to burdney"s paper are very different from the issues that are central to poge"s paper. Both are interested in how our rights and obligations are related to things we did in the past. Burdney is focusing on many people who are in desperate need for livers. A person has a morally weaker claim to medical resources when her need can be traced to her decision to act in ways that put her health at risk when she contributed to her need. His thought is that this principle is too broad. The principle says the person will have a weaker claim. There"s a wide range of answers one can reply with for this question. One one extreme, you might say if somebody has been a heavy drinker and contributed to the fact that they need a liver, they go to the bottom of the list.
