When the Law Meets Compassion

Merry Sunday!

I hope you had a blissful day, just like I did.

Well, after church today, I was watching an episode of Law & Order with my sister. She has been on it for a while now, and it was intense.

It made me question what I thought was right.

In this episode, the detectives discovered that some people were selling body parts from dead people without consent to patients in desperate need of transplants.

Now, this was clearly wrong, a crime. But at the same time, it was saving lives by providing kidneys and other organs to those who would otherwise die.

In the end, the culprits were caught, and the detectives almost stopped a surgery involving one of these illegally obtained kidneys. But then, the father of the child who needed the kidney asked one of the detectives, "If it were your child, would you let him die?"

Of course not. In real messy situations, we do not think about the law. We go above and beyond for the people we love and the things we care about.

So, dear reader, do you think the law is unfair for almost letting a child die? Was it right to stop the surgery just because of how the kidney was obtained?

Two wrongs do not make a right, but the bias in me would not care about the means. I would jump at the kidney without a second thought. Because a life is worth so much.

What do you think?

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