On: First Human Embryos Edited in U.S

[pryce]

It's not simply 'net' harm, as we would regard surgeons as breaking this principle, if they were to murder a homeless man and distribute his organs to 5 otherwise terminal patients.

Medical ethics is its own field precisely because overeager and overconfident solutions are fraught with problems.

[Double_a_92 → pryce]

net harm per person then :D

But what about if somebody donates a kidney...? Hm

[aethertron → pryce]

If the principle is understood to be applicable with regard to each individual, that would seem to accord with opposition to organ theft.