On with the show...

Well, this is neat, I have a backlog of ideas for posts. It seems over the last couple days I have been thinking about a number of topics that I think are worthy of blogging. But I don't want to type them all out at once as Tommy tells me that reading this blog is work. So I will just write them down and have them all ahead of time. Here we go...

I was watching some primetime television last evening, turns out television can actually lead to thought rather than shut it down, and an interesting predicament was presented. It is a safe assumption that I haven't figured this whole thing out for myself yet, but here is the premise: Man feels an insatiable need to give of himself to others, that he deemed worthy, by giving away his organs and bone marrow. The man who did this went through databases of those in need of transplants who happened to have his rare blood type. He learned about the great things that these people had planned to do if they were able to continue living. One was a social worker going to law school with intentions to be a children's advocate, another had made the designs for a school in a box that could be assembled in any area at any time. The man doing the donating thought that these people were worthy of his efforts and then arranged to give them what they needed and even agreed to pay for all of their medical bills, but told them that they must then live up to what they were planning to do. When one woman changed her plans and abandoned her goals by leaving law school, leaving work, getting married, and having a kid; he stopped paying her medical bills. At this point I think the show was trying to put him off as a bad guy. I couldn't see anything wrong with this. He had given the woman life so that she could do great things not so that she could be a breeder. Was there anything wrong with this? The woman had received payment in return for future actions, this happens all the times, so can this be considered morally wrong? Let me know.
Oh, he then took it a step farther, had her killed, and then her kidney that he had given her was given to another woman. So...yeah, he was a little wacked out. But I still believed that his premise in the beginning was an excellent idea. He was giving all of these people, with great ideas and who had been working towards them, life. There were expectations to go along with this life, but it is still life.
The other issue this raise was, is one human life worth more than another? We say that we live in a country where life is respected (just check that whole Terry Schiavo case), so often we give much different treatment to people based on their situations. In many cases, this is wrong, but is it always? These people had real, definite, and helpful plans. That is a lot more than most of us can claim. So why shouldn't their lives be saved before those of others with the same blood type but without the plans. This then brings in the whole means argument where you could say that some of those other people haven't had the means to create those plans yet, but have the ability and should still have the same oppurtunities. But I will choose to ignore that for brevity's sake. Not that I have kept this short anyway. I will most likely have more on this at a later date.

Peace.