Where we differ
You and Squashed think you are being compassionate toward the guy who wants to sell his kidney, but it’s not compassion—it’s cruelty. He has a potential path out of poverty, and you want to block it. If you think it’s an awful path, give him a better one, so that the kidney sale looks less attractive.
Jeff, I assure you, I am trying very hard to give that guy a path out of poverty that doesn’t require him to sell chunks of his body. I have all sorts of ideas for programs that would have a much, much better chance of succeeding than a one-shot cash injection followed by a probable lifetime of health consequences.
The bold part is the point i’ve been wanting to make but Squashed beat me to. This whole “selling your organs” thing just sounds like a fancier pay day loan scheme, except instead of a crippling spiral of never-ending debt, you just have to go through the rest of your life down a kidney or with half a liver and all of the problems that come of that. What was the problem with changing the donor rules to being opt-out instead of opt-in, again? That just seems like a much simpler solution to the problem of organ donation, one that doesn’t involve more complicated regulation and oversight or the specter of organ harvesting.
2 years ago