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[CoughDrop]

All of them would contribute about the same amount.

Each person contributing the same amount, or the sum of the patients' contributions to the same amount as the healthy person?

[Leafsnail]

Each person.  That's the point of this dilemna.

[ChairmanPoo]

If it's the same as blood types, then it could just be that the guy who walked in is double O negative (and is thus a universal donor).  If it isn't, then... I dunno, lol.

It's more complicated than that. It depends on the HLA genes. A more or less "perfect match" would be 6 out of 6. IIRC this number is relative as you can actually match for more (and, for that matter, I'm not sure right now as to which HLAs does the x out of 6 system match. I think it studies the major complexes for MHC I and II), but those six are the most relevant ones and useful for clinical practice.

[Earthquake Damage]

It's nice to know we're a murderous, judgmental bunch.

[Nadaka]

It's nice to know we're a murderous, judgmental bunch.

Welcome to humanity.

[Leafsnail]

It's because being ruthlessly utilitarian is the easy way to get through most of these questions.  It doesn't necessarily mean you could actually murder someone in real life in a similar situation.

[Zangi]

Are the 5 people strangers? 
Is the 1 person a stranger?
Do any of them know each other?

1 dies, the other 4 lives.  (If circumstances permit...)  One volunteer or eenie-meanie-minie-mo.

Seriously, you need ALL sorts of information to make a decision...  not just be given a small amount.  (At least in the case of being doctor.) 
That is, unless this has to be done 'now' and there is no other chance... (For some unknown reason that will not and cannot be explained.)

[Leafsnail]

The dying patients' organs aren't suitable for transplant.

It's not a medical decision.  It's a moral choice.

[Sowelu]

Won't murder for organs: "First do no harm".  It's antithetical to the profession.

[Earthquake Damage]

Won't murder for organs: "First do no harm".  It's antithetical to the profession.

It also breeds distrust in the profession.  Hospitals aren't very useful if people avoid them due to rampant organ harvesting.

[Max White]

Well that is boring, we will never get nuro implants if we don't throw a few live ones onto the alter of science and mess up the process! For the good of all human/robot hyrid kind, we need to rip apart more people.

[Zrk2]

I just peeked in and saw this:

Won't murder for organs: "First do no harm".  It's antithetical to the profession.

It also breeds distrust in the profession.  Hospitals aren't very useful if people avoid them due to rampant organ harvesting.

What have I missed?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What have I missed?

People choosing to continue discussing a single topic instead of changing it, and going off on wild tangents. Just as planned.

Votes untill a new topic: 2

[CoughDrop]

Votin'

[Zrk2]

Voted, throw something else up there.