• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The doctor with 7 organs and 7 transplant patients is meant to be a thought experiment highlighting the vast gulf between our moral intuitions andhow awesome naïve utilitarianism is.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    You absolutely cannot go meet them. They are kept in an extremely sterile environment because, in order to be the most appropriate for transplant, their immune systems are turned way down.

    Source: some youtube videos I’ve seen, in the science/education space. I don’t recall the exact channel.