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Also about society and law abiding
+142Society likes to think that allowing a law abiding citizen to have a gun tranforms him into a cold blooded mass murderer, amirite? Also about law abiding and abiding citizens
+284It's really weird that a dude can rob a bank and get free healthcare in prison, but most law abiding citizens can't do the same. Amirite? Also about kill, criminal, law abiding, and abiding citizens
+209If you're a criminal, on your way to kill someone, it's not that big of a deal to obtain a gun illegally (or difficult). The only people deterred by gun control laws are law abiding citizens, who then don't have a way to defend themselves. Funny how that works, amirite? Also about surgeon and heart transplant
+246The "Kali-Mah!" guy from the second Indiana Jones movie could have been a very successful heart transplant surgeon, amirite? Also about law abiding and abiding citizens
+60Let's just give the gangs more business by encouraging them to smuggle in more guns because they're illegal or hard to get, so that less law abiding citizens have guns, but criminals still do...because that worked so well with the "war on drugs". Making something illegal doesn't take it off the streets, amirite?
No because there are still other honest, law-abiding citizens who have been on waiting lists for a long time for transplants. You shouldn't put the others first just because. Not to mention that they would have to run multiple tests on the body of the guy and patients, have surgical teams help both remove the organs from the guy and put them into the other patients, then dispose of the organ-less body. There is no feasible way you wouldn't get found out which would then make you lose your job, medical license, probably your home, vehicle, and credibility. Also, there would be no way to prove that he would have killed the next person he saw.
That would make you just as bad as the criminal. People who need organ donations are put on a wait list, they don't need you to kill someone for them.
Nice thought, but like AndyBlacksmith said, you can't just yank out some organs and sew them up into someone else...it's a delicate process and the organs have to be matches for the people getting them.
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Everyone else pretty much covered the "it's unjust to kill someone even if they're a criminal part" but I'd like to add: being a surgeon doesn't mean you instantly know a person's past or their medical history. You would not know he were a criminal unless perhaps he was all over the news for his actions. Killing three people doesn't always make the news. Also, If the guy comes in an collapses on the floor, for one, you don't know he's healthy but him collapsing on the floor doesn't exactly make it look like he is. So even if you had permission to do such a thing, it would be stupid not to do proper tests on him to determine his health before you go shoving his organs into other people.
Overcoming the major medical flaws with this, and assuming you somehow knew for a fact that the man could donate all his organs and they'd be compatible with those of the patients, AND that you knew this about the criminal's mental state (specifically the fact that he's still dangerous), you would still have to add in one factor:
The man's organs cannot be donated, for whatever reason, to people earlier on the waiting list who have less time.
If that were the case, I agree, but i cannot, because i would then use the man's organs to do the aforementioned
Why not just use the organs out of that other poster's backpack? Apparently they carry them around...