Essays on Lottery

Did you know that you are statistically four times more likely to be killed by a falling coconut than to win the lottery? Surprising? Maybe not, when you consider that the likelihood of winning is about 1 in 300 million. Those are some small odds….

Days before his 18th birthday Brandon Dewolfe and his close friend Kayla had gone out to a field about 20 minutes from our town Greenville, to climb a tree. While high up Brandon Dewolfe had tragically fallen from one of the higher branches, luckily paramedics…

The Survival Lottery is a proposal by John Harris outlining an idealisation of organ transplantation. It supposes that organ transplant procedures have been perfected, allowing a ‘lottery’ system to exist whereby every person is assigned a number, and, where there are two or more people…

On the Permissibility of the Survival Lottery John Harris proposes the implementation of asocial lottery where healthy individuals are sacrificed for organ harvest in order to save the lives of individuals with failing organs. This system would allow one healthy individual to save the lives…