[extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated

[Karen Rand Smigrodzki]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky"
> Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> >
> > The net result of this (and other efforts) to make organ
> > transplants safer, more effective, cheaper, etc. will be
> > to strengthen the arguments of those who desire that organ
> > donation be made mandatory.
>
> In the US they'd run into severe problems with First Amendment religious
> separation, since Judaic law has problems with organ donation.
>
> --
> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
> Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

        That would be the problem; however, they are getting around that now
by not making it really mandatory since you can opt-out. Even this method
though, if they piss enough people off by taking organs of
opted-outs-for-religious-reasons then this opt-out law could be challenged
on First Amendment bases.

    karen