• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    26 days ago

    Source on this? I read that Tim Apple offered a donation and Steve refused. I have not read that he had the surgery.

    • Sporkbomber@lemm.ee
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      25 days ago

      He did get a transplant, in TN. Not in CA where he lived. He used his wealth to add himself to a areas with more donors and fewer on the wait list because he could hop on a jet unlike normal plebians.

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        25 days ago

        That doesn’t describe jumping a line, it just describes waiting in more lines. Is that all there was to it?

        • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 days ago

          I would argue it does, because he used his wealth to get a liver before he should have. Just because he has the means to be on the donor list in Bumblefuck, Egypt doesn’t mean he’s not jumping the line and taking an organ from someone who should have gotten it.

          However you slice it, he used his wealth to steal a liver from a much more deserving recipient. He never should have been given the liver given how he destroyed his own, and it’s a shame he was able to buy a new one to destroy the same fucking way.

          We need to stop defending this sort of behavior.