[Avodah] Murder?

[Zev Sero]

On 20/11/2010 11:07 PM, Harry Maryles wrote:
> OK. Try this on for size. A 12 year old child needs a kidney and will die if he doesn't get one. He is listed first on UNOS for the first available kindney. A compaitible donor is found. As it happens that same kidney is comptible with a75 year old billionaire. He too needs the kidney but his situation is not as dire. His prognosis give him more time than the 12 year old, Nevertheless he approaches the donor and offers him a million dollars.The donor agrees and he gets the kidney thus prolonging his life. The child dies. Is the behavior of the billionaire ethical?

Why not?  It's his money and the donor's kidney; how is it anyone else's
right to interfere?  What is this, communism?!  Chayecha kodmin; your
blood may be no redder than anyone else's, but it's also no less red.


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