Comment on Mass-murdering neuroscience Ph.D. student

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 21:49:43 GMT

There recently was a post on LW (to which I'll provide a link as soon as I get behind a 'proper' computer rather than a smartphone) making the point that the expected number of lives you save is much higher if you donate $400 than if you donate a kidney, so if you're indifferent between losing $400 and losing a kidney (and given what that post said about the inconvenience of the surgery for kidney explantation, I'd say $400 is even a conservative estimate) you'd better donate the former. (FWIW, I have agreed to donate my organs after death -- more precisely, it's opt-out in my country, but I know how to opt out and haven't done so.)

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