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Comment on Is there a reason I should donate a kidney to a stranger now, rather than just waiting till I die, at which point both kidneys will probably be donated to strangers anyway?

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Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You now have a single point of failure, where you had redundancy before.

On the plus side, someone else gets to continue existing.

Or from the IT perspective: I have two important servers, one has a single drive, the other has RAID mirroring. The drive in the first server fails. I could take a drive out of the server with RAID and have two functional servers or I could keep the second one running on its RAID and have a server with redundancy (that hopefully/might not be needed).

(I’m not going out and donating a kidney though, guess we can say it’s because I’m selfish.)

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Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway. So the difference is that a different someone else gets to continue existing.

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- Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But as OP points out, someone will get that kidney eventually anyway.
  
  OP erroneously thought that but it’s not actually correct. The conditions where someone dies but their kidney is viable for a transplant are rare.
  
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Archpawn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Counterpoint: If you’re an IT guy, you’re probably making enough money that you can donate mosquito nets and save tons of lives, and it’s not worth risking all that to save one more.

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