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Hanink on the Survival Lottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

John Harris
John Harris
Affiliation:
City of Birmingham Polytechnic
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Extract

Mr. Hanink objects to my ‘Survival Lottery’ which would save Y and Z, who need new organs, by choosing and killing A at random to provide them. He believes the relevant difference between killing A and not saving Y and Z ‘might well be this: Y and Z can not have A killed without intentionally seeking A's death. But a physician can “not save” Y and Z without intentionally seeking their deaths’.

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Discussion
Information
Philosophy , Volume 53 , Issue 203 , January 1978 , pp. 100 - 101
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1978

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References

1 Hanink, J. G., ‘On the Survival Lottery’, Philosophy, 51, No. 196 (04 1976), pp. 223–225.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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