If you desperately needed a hand-transplant (or face living with a stump the rest of your life) would you accept a hand from a sex offender?

Well, first let's be sure to deal with the issue of having a convicted sex offender's fingerprints. If someone burdened me with the information about that person's history of criminal behavior, I suppose I'd like the fingers to be altered prior to my surgery. I don't know much about fingerprinting, but I can imagine with my luck that some weird issue could come up years down the line.

If I had to be fingerprinted for something to do with a career or license of some kind, and if they insisted on taking prints of my new hand (or from both hands), then there might be some unpleasant explaining to do. Other than that, I believe I would accept the transplant. If I were going to go through with any transplant at all, I don't think the criminal record of the donor would be a deal breaker.

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I have to admit that I would feel creeped out at first, not only because it was a foreign body part, but because of where it had come from. I would comfort myself with the thought that all of the cells will eventually be replaced by my own, thus helping me to feel like I wouldn't be living with a stranger's hand for the rest of my life. Outside of that, I think it would be quite just if the hand that once did harm went out to help others and work towards a better society.So, yes, I would take it.

I would accept it. The hand has no memory or future control over what it does. I am sure if the hand worked it would not lead me into deviant behavior or would any prvious behavior be implanted into my personal memory.

I think it irrelevant where the hand came from. It's not as if the hand is going to wake up in your sleep and go off molesting children. Acts such as those rest of the soul not the flesh.

Realistically, I don't think that information would be shared with the potential recipient of the hand. I agree with U, though: responsibility for acts like that reside in the soul, not in the flesh. I would accept the hand.

I also agree with the poster who said he would be glad to put the hand to good uses, instead of the bad uses it previously was put to. That is a good way of looking at it, I think.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.