In this scenario we giving the doctor an awful lot of power. We need to have unreasonably high trust in him to make such choice practical. Handling other people lives often have funny effects on one morality.
There is another problem: In reality, shit happens. But our intuition says something like “Shit happens to other people. I have control over my life, as long as I do everything right no shit will ever happen to me”. See? In my mind there is no way I ever need organ transplant so such arrangement is strictly detrimental, while in reality chances are I will be saved by it. Again there are good reasons for such intuition, as it promotes responsibility for own actions. If we are to make health “common property” who will be responsible for it?
I suspect it is easier to solve artificial organs than human nature.
In this scenario we giving the doctor an awful lot of power. We need to have unreasonably high trust in him to make such choice practical. Handling other people lives often have funny effects on one morality.
There is another problem: In reality, shit happens. But our intuition says something like “Shit happens to other people. I have control over my life, as long as I do everything right no shit will ever happen to me”. See? In my mind there is no way I ever need organ transplant so such arrangement is strictly detrimental, while in reality chances are I will be saved by it. Again there are good reasons for such intuition, as it promotes responsibility for own actions. If we are to make health “common property” who will be responsible for it?
I suspect it is easier to solve artificial organs than human nature.