@joblack.... I completely agree with others that the topic has strayed too far, and this is certainly not the place to discuss such a matter. So this will be my last post on the subject....
When making my simple statement I really didn't see anything controversial about it. Just stating things that a generation or two ago would have been self evident. Nearly two pages in the thread later I was attacked and so responded (heck, I had forgotten I even posted it). I of course do not think bribing is a great idea (and there is no evidence that Mr. Jobs did so, just hateful conjecture). In our little town I have known people getting liver transplants, and one of them was not just poor but very poor.
But my burning house example stands. Because the bottom line is in our fantasy liver transplant example and the burning house, one or both will die depending on what we do. In burning house with my child and a strangers child I would not hesitate to rush in and bring my child to safety. I would not have to debate with myself on the "morally" or "fair" thing to do. With your distorted moral idea you would have to try to be "fair". So the house is burning, and only one can be rescued. You I guess would pull out a coin and flip it, giving each child a "fair' chance at being saved. When the coin came against your child you would enter the house, pass up the room to your child, and pull the stranger from the flames. You could present the strangers child and explain how moral and fair you are. Then go to the morgue and identify the charred remains of your own child.
Again, I agree with the "fair" distribution of organs for transplant. And it is easy to wax all super moral and self righteous when talking in made up scenarios. But I know in the real situations, the love for a child will often trump pious sounding rhetoric.
Anyway, that's all folks.... I have been called "pathetic", "selfish" and a "coward" in this thread. I've been called worse, and Lord willing I will live long enough to be called worse again
I do apologize to anyone that I offended, it's okay to disagree.