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Originally Posted by flylock shox
What if, instead of one day waking up to find yourself randomly attached to a dying violinist, you willingly entered the "DVL: Dying Violinist Lottery."
In the DVL, you are given the option of taking 1 of only 100 tickets in the lottery, and if you take a ballot you will immediately be given $1,000. If, however, your ballot is drawn, you will be hooked up to a dying violinist for 9 months to sustain his life.
You elect to take a ticket, knowing the odds are 99 to 1 in your favor.
Your ticket is drawn.
Do you owe an obligation to the violinist?
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That's missing the entire point that the violinist example is akin to rape, but to humour you your example is assuming that people would engage in sex with some intention of creating a baby; as shown with your 1/1000 odds. Secondly the answer is the same, you are under no moral obligation to hook the dying violinist to your body. It would be very kind of you, but you do not have to do it.