Giving reasons about why we think and what we think was an implicit norm …show more content…
Age was one of the criteria we look for. For example, we didn’t give a heart to Father Mussallo who didn’t have any negative qualification other than being an elderly. Having any kind of destructive behaviour was another criteria we looked for. For example, we didn’t give a heart to Dick Riley, who had a struggle with a drug addiction, because he may get involved with drugs again. Another example is the lady with weight problem. Even though we didn’t consider the weight problem as bad as the drug addiction, we also didn’t give a heart to her, because she could have lost weight to prevent the problem with her heart. Having the ability to affect other people was another criteria we used. For example, Donna Fortran, PhD in physics and director of research about food capsules.She was one of the people that we thought deserves a heart to live longer, because what she has been doing was something that was not just important for her, but for other people too. Having some common criterias helped our group to make decisions; however, I would rather set up the criterias before we started to read, because it would be easier to decide while reading. Moreover, we would have used better criterias to make …show more content…
While we were deciding whom to give the hearts, all of the group members except me agreed that younger people deserve getting hearts more than older people; however I wasn’t quite sure about it. There were several reasons for that. First, so much money already have been used to give some services such as education, health service etc. to those people who were older, and letting them die by giving the heart to younger ones seemed to me like throwing all that money to garbage. Second, as a result of my perception which is spontaneously affected by my religion, I have considered that even though it looks very tragic to lose someone too young, believing he/she will certainly go to paradise makes it better for