500 Words: What do you think of Nozick’s 3 arguments about inequality? Do you agree or disagree and why?
500 Words, Argue either for or against the following case:
(Note: DO NOT try and just argue about how implausible this situation might be, or in some way try to get out of the thought experiment. Take it at face value and then argue).
There is a homeless man who has no family at all. He sleeps on the sidewalk right outside a major hospital. Inside the intensive care unit within this hospital, there are 3 world famous doctors who have collectively found the cure for cancer. But there is a serious problem: Each of them needs a life-saving organ in the next 1 hour or they will die. There are no organs available from the donor pools. Each doctor needs a different organ. If they die, then the cure for cancer will die with them, and then millions of people will continue to die from cancer each year world-wide. Or, the hospital staff, can walk 20 feet out of the hospital and forcefully abduct the homeless man who has absolutely no social utility and harvest his organs and save the 3 doctors with his organs. The homeless man will die from this procedure, but we can guarantee the survival of the 3 doctors who know the cure for cancer. What do you think? Should the hospital staff harvest the homeless man’s organs and save the 3 doctors, or should they not do this and allow the doctors to die? Why are why not?
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