Abstract
shall live when not all can live? Although this question has been urgently forced upon us by the dramatic use of artificial internal organs and organ transplantations, it is hardly new. George Bernard Shaw dealt with it in "The Doctor's Dilemma": Sir Patrick. Well, Mr. Savior of Lives: which is it to be? that honest decent man Blenkinsop, or that rotten blackguard of an artist, eh? Ridgeon. It's not an easy case to judge, is it? Blenkinsop's an honest decent man; but is he any use? Dubedaťs a rotten blackguard; but he's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things. Sir Patrick. What will he be a source of for that poor innocent wife of his, when she finds him out? Ridgeon. That's true. Her life will be a hell. Sir Patrick. And tell me this. Suppose you had this choice put before you: either to go through life and find all the pictures bad but all the men and women good, or go through life and find all the pictures good and all the men and women rotten. Which would you choose?1
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