So I appreciate that it’s been about 6 months since I last posted.

So yes. I suck at this.

Partially because things get in the way.

Partially because I’m lazy.

And partially because something something something.

So what’s new in the life of me?

• Sat January AS Modules (3As and a B)
• Sat Summer AS Modules (Results Pending, Aug 14th)
• Other things which aren’t as interesting.

I’ll post something soon.

Here’s an ethical (note: not ethnic. I will probably make that mistake, so forgive me) question for you:

You are a surgeon working in a hospital. You are aware of 5 other patients in that hospital require organ donations, and they need these donations pretty soon (ie within the next day or two, or they will die).

You have a patient that’s just come in for an appendicitis.

Now, you have a choice, do you:

a) kill this new patient and harvest his organs and use them in an organ transplant? (Assume that the organs are a match, no complications in surgery etc and they won’t be hit by a bus as soon as they leave the hospital)

b) treat the man for what he came in for and allow the other 5 patients to die?

This probably isn’t an uncommon question, and probably are many variations on this, but it always bubbles down to “Do you let x amount of people die and kill one person? Or do you allow the one person to live and kill x amount of people?”

Car/trains/helicopters/fighter jets oncoming, organ transplant, hostage situations, you get the idea, there’s a lot you can change.

I’m not quite doing ethics in Philosophy (though if I did theology I would have), which disappoints me because epistemology is so much harder than I really wanted it to be. Ethics I’ve done briefly before, and theology I’m comfortable with (but I don’t like it that much). Not that I can do anything about it now.

I’ve always been interested in people’s response to that question. They always seem to try and find a way out (for reference, you can never have an easy way out), no one ever gives a straight answer to the question. Except me, but then again I don’t give a personal opinion on the answer, just “Utilitarianism: kill the man”.

When they do answer, it’s a numbers game: x people live and 1 dies. Seems fair enough. Apparently.

I never really appreciated the fact of when you’re younger, you can pretty much do anything. 50p seemed like you’d just found a gold mine when you were 5.

Now 50p barely buys me lunch… well unless my lunch is a packet of polos from the vending machine, possibly a chocolate bar (but the polos last longer)

Now 16 years, 6A*s (at GCSE) and 6 weeks into 6th form, things are reaching a normality. Things won’t change from here on in, the real world has actually back-handed me in the face and I’m still pouting about it. Real money, real work (pfffttt) and real relationships (I’m not in love, contrary to what everyone else is saying. ****ers . Yet I’m still soulless enough to take the piss of anyone that is in love though. Fun old me.)

Don’t worry, I’ll repost that in about 2 years time. It’ll be fine.

One final thought:

One of my mates told me that my neutral face (ie no expression, similar to your concentration face, and the complete opposite to your party face) is the most deadpan object in history.

Well, if that’s true, I’m going to be the most bitching doctor in history, especially if Scrubs, House and Grey’s Anatomy is anything to go by. Winner.