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Question? I will be dead when any useful organs I might have are harvested. I won't have much interest in who is "deserving" or not. I can't even grasp that concept.
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If you're dead you won't have much interest in anything - that's not the point. I think the point being made is that people want to be sure that they are helping people who are deserving of help.
I guess you could draw a similarity to homeless people. There are homeless people on the streets because they have spent everything they own feeding some form of addiction. There are also homeless people on the street who have lost everything due to something out of their control. Living in a large city, (Vancouver) I have met both types. I have no problem helping people I know are trying to help themselves - but I have a huge problem helping people who are just trying to feed an addiction.
It's not a perfect comparison, but there are parallels to be drawn.
I think another important point to make is that a lot of people who are of similar opinion to mine have no problem helping people who are the cause of their own problem; but they want to help people who are in need due to no cause of their own
first. If there is an alcoholic with liver cancer and there is no one behind him on some list with liver cancer due to, say, radiation exposure or something, then yes, give the alcoholic my liver.
-Tamerlain