Michael Sandel: What's the right thing to do?

View Video first: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_sandel_what_s_the_right_thing_to_do.html

"thank you uncle Osama for telling me about the video"

it is a very interesting subject which i would love to hear or perhaps READ your comments and opinion on. i already posted the coment and i wrote:

first of all i would like to thank mr. Michael Sandel for his outstanding performance in this tough yet great argument. i couldn't -not for one second- be distracted from the video and my eyes were wide open on the screen.
as for the issue, i think that in all situations the decision was dependant on one man or let's say "mind" and this mind has lived years under certain circumstances that made up his sets of rights and wrongs which certainly varies from one society to another if not a house to another . it is not about outnumbering because racism, for instance, was built upon the hatred of thousands to a minority of only different skinned people. So is the number a reliable factor here?
The same applies to the "necessity demands" point of view. Who gets to decide what's necessary or not? Let's view the situations:
(1) the driver –unwilling to commit murder- gets to decide whether to kill 1 or 5 people in this tragic accident. Apparently, The value of one person is priceless to him because he –the driver- wants to survive. Otherwise he'd simply crash in between and save the 6. What makes his life worth a better chance than the one worker?
(2) The man on the bridge should NOT push the fat guy. Because the driver is the one who should decide. Getting involved in others decision may cause a worse consequence. What if he missed the car? he would have killed the fat man, the driver, and whoever was there to be dead. In politics we have tons of examples on how penetrating into a countries inner affairs would damage both societies.
(3) The tragic voyage. Even if the 17 yrs old sailor agreed to sacrifice himself to save the others it is not the right of anyone to take the life of a breathing human even when he's sick. The necessity here is justified only when they eat the flesh of the first man who dies among them. They wouldn't die all at the same time, would they?
(4) The doctor: if I was in this situation I would pick up the patients randomly because all of them have equal rights to be saved and survive. I'd let their bodies decide when to leave life.
(5) The organ donor: would the doctor donate his kidney if he's a positive donor to one of them? Would he do that to his daughter if she was the person lying down in peace next to his ER? I don't think so.
Again, I really enjoyed every split second of the lecture and I would want to be there whenever this issue is on :)

ORGAN DONATION.. with or against ?

"مِنْ أَجْلِ ذَلِكَ كَتَبْنَا عَلَى بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ أَنَّهُ مَن قَتَلَ نَفْسًا بِغَيْرِ نَفْسٍ أَوْ فَسَادٍ فِي الأَرْضِ فَكَأَنَّمَا قَتَلَ النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَمَنْ أَحْيَاهَا فَكَأَنَّمَا أَحْيَا النَّاسَ جَمِيعًا وَلَقَدْ جَاء تْهُمْ رُسُلُنَا بِالبَيِّنَاتِ ثُمَّ إِنَّ كَثِيرًا مِّنْهُم بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فِي الأَرْضِ لَمُسْرِفُونَ"
"005.032 On that account: We ordained for the Children of Israel that if any one slew a person - unless it be for murder or for spreading mischief in the land - it would be as if he slew the whole people: and if any one saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people. Then although there came to them Our apostles with clear signs, yet, even after that, many of them continued to commit excesses in the land. "

imagine you were in a serious critical condition on a bed somewhere inside the ER surrounded by your friends and family waiting for a solution.. what's the problem? your liver, kidney or spleen suddenly stopped working!
what is the first poping idea to all?
CAN SOME ONE DONATE A KIDNEY ? or else you'd die.

if in this situation you accepted to recieve an organ, will you donate one of yours later on ? or perhaps when you die?

isn't it greedy to have the chance to re-live your life from others organs and not to pay the debt back ?

will you donate your organs after you die? why ? why not ?

PLZ DISCUSS :)

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ZAMZAM results analysis !

CONTAMINATED !!

Result analysis:
there are more than one reason for the growth to be as it shows up in the picture, one of which i think is true .
(1) Zamzam is a regular water and the spirtuality and curing features comes from Allah.
(2) zamzam sample was not pure or maybe mixed with other water at the time of filling the bottles in mekka
(2) incubation temperature (44 degrees) revived the bacterial cells in the sample. (direct filtration without incubation will confirm or deny this theory , so i will do it)
(3) zamzam loses its characterestics after a period of time
(4) ..... you write your opinion :)

ZAMZAM experiment ! part 2

goodmorning :)
back to phase two of our experiment . the samples were kept in the incubator for over 48 hours and a good growth is expected.


samples taken out and what we need: funnels, filter papers, growth media "food", and sample


funnel fixed in the "membrane filtration system"



take and fix the filter paper to the system


add sample and run the device.


remove the filter paper and place it in the media
note: i used ENDO agar for "total coliform count" and S&B media for "fecal streptococci"


put the plates in the incubator and wait for 24 hours :)