Self-Quiz 4.5: John Harris, The Survival Lottery

A survival lottery is a

game similar to Russian roulette.

system of redistribution of money.

system for procuring organ donors for transplants.

proposal for a reality TV show.

According to Harris, doctors would be killing innocent people if they

instituted the survival lottery.

refused to institute the survival lottery.

Both of the above

None of the above

If we adopted Harris's scheme, the question of who would donate organs would be decided

by a computer.

on a voluntary basis.

by the doctors performing the transplants.

by the patients in need of organs.

Harris thinks that the terror people would feel in response to the survival lottery would be

irrational and thus morally irrelevant.

morally important but able to be mitigated and worth the lottery's benefits.

a sufficient reason to not institute the lottery.

None of the above

Harris responds to the "third parties" proposal, which states that we should only take organs for the sick and dying from the sick and dying, by arguing that

this would violate the sick and dying's right to equal concern and respect.

this would save less lives because the sick and dying don't have as many fully functional organs.

since the sick and dying are already badly off, we have an obligation to avoid making them worse off.

All of the above

Which of the following objections to the survival lottery does Harris not consider?

It would cause widespread panic.

It would require killing innocent people.

It would be "playing God."

The surgeries required would be excruciatingly painful.

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