Say your kidney or a slice of liver for a little extra spending money?
Why or why not?
Why or why not?
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Do you think people should have the right to sell their organs if they want
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Do you think people should have the right to sell their organs if they... |
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Posts: 23815 (07/06/08 8:55 AM) Registered User |
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Angela in WI |
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Posts: 23818 (07/06/08 9:09 AM) Registered User |
I think that there is the possibility of a "slippery slope" in that it could become a situation where very few people are willing to do it without
money involved. Or the organ would go to the highest bidder and someone waiting longer would lose out because they didn't have the money.
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Posts: 19266 (07/06/08 9:11 AM) MESS member |
and ther are people dumb enough to sell their organs who don't fully understand the long term consequences
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Posts: 19270 (07/06/08 10:00 AM) MESS member |
unfortunately there are people who could talk to a doctor and still not understand the long term consequences
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Zeep |
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Posts: 8155 (07/06/08 10:10 AM) Psycho |
Then there's the whole concept of creating a market for organs, which will lead to a black market for organs. But why worry about that, right?
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Satans Favorite Daughter |
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Posts: 73 (07/06/08 10:16 AM) |
These people who try selling organs they don't ever use. Like their brains.
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superguppie |
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Posts: 23417 (07/06/08 10:35 AM) Registered user |
A friend of mine gave another friend one of her kidneys FOR FREE.
What a stupid bitch! |
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Bernard Wrangler |
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Posts: 8813 (07/06/08 11:16 AM) this won't end well.
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I bet yessie's mom sold her hands to buy her organ.
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Crepuscular |
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Posts: 397 (07/06/08 12:02 PM) Registered user |
The selling of one's organs is inviable socially and humanely because:
1. No one will donate organs for free anymore. Only rich people will be able to save themselves. One study even showed (I'm not sure how) that when given the idea of a country where one can sell their organs, people would even be more unlikely to agree to organ donation after death. 2. Destitute people may make poor choices and sell their organs when tight for cash. 3. Poor people and minorities may be coerced into selling organs. Foreigners may be shipped in to create an organ trade. One can imagine the horrors of promising rewards to citizens of third world countries. We'd be an organ harvesting country. |
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Angela in WI |
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Posts: 23831 (07/06/08 1:27 PM) Registered User |
Private organ sales are already fact in second-world countries. There have been several (I hesitate to say many, because I don't have any stats) cases of
people flying to India, for example, to have transplant surgeries from people willing to donate an organ for cash. I watched a documentary about a man from
Canada who had his transplant done in India because that's where he could have it done most quickly instead of waiting in the transplant queue.
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nomii |
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Posts: 4450 (07/06/08 1:42 PM) Registered user |
stupidity of the public and the slippery slope arguments cannot be used to deny smarter people of their rights.
so yes, they should be allowed. people sell their bodies right now anyways (labor-intensive jobs, sex workers etc), so no biggie. |
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