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CBHD: The Internet and Stranger-to-Stranger Organ Donation - Roobert E. Cranston, M.D. The World Wide Web is, far and away, the largest and fastest international communication forum the world has ever known. It seems that every day new uses can be found for this intriguing medium. From its inception, however, the internet has raised ethical puzzles that have at times seemed insoluble. In the same way that the pen is mightier than the sword, the internet is now one of the most powerful avenues of idea-dissemination ever. In this vein, freedom of the press, libel, personal property rights, hatemongering, and espionage, to name a few, are important human rights issues promulgated and compounded by the power of the web. To these have been more recently added legal and moral debates of a bioethical bent impinging on concerns of the body, mind, and soul. One example of the power and new problems of the web is internet pornography, an industry that in the U.S. generates more money than all professional sports combined. Perhaps the single most damaging force destroying homes and people in the world today, this private, easily available, consuming addition has ruined countless lives, careers, and families. Full Article: http://www.cbhd.org/resources/healthcare/cranston_2004-11-19.htm


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