Freedom to sell blood and organs: for or against?

Freedom to sell blood and organs: for or against?


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Klaus

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Illegal immigrants can stay here if they donate a kidney, liver, heart and brain.

ProblemS solved.

I propose that prisoners should get reduced sentences for selling/donating organs, as well.

It would likely expand the scale of human trafficking IMO. Absolutely no to organ sales.

Has their been an epidemic of "human trafficking" (whatever that is) associated with payment for plasma/sperm/eggs?

Payment for blood/organs is only an incentive structure. The current incentive structure is limited to altruism. Allowing for payment for organs would expand the market to include those that are motivated by compensation and altruism.
 

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I'd be more ok with hospitals paying organ donors' families as a means to encourage more people to become organ donors. Instead of giving something away that has extreme value, use it as a means to help the family. Funerals cost too much and life insurance is a crock. (btw: my will states no funeral, dumpster ok)

But, honestly, the argument that "it will be abused" towards anything is too obvious. The same reason that Socialism has never and will never work is why every system will be abused, until we either nuke our entire dirty race off the planet, or the sun says "ok I've had enough of this BS" and goes into a red giant phase.

Wasn't there an X-file Episode on this?

Yeah. Lucy Lui was in it at a young age. Some chinese had a rigged gambling going on and you lost organs
 

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I propose that prisoners should get reduced sentences for selling/donating organs, as well.



Has their been an epidemic of "human trafficking" (whatever that is) associated with payment for plasma/sperm/eggs?

Payment for blood/organs is only an incentive structure. The current incentive structure is limited to altruism. Allowing for payment for organs would expand the market to include those that are motivated by compensation and altruism.


That was proposed before and found to be unethical and cruel and humane. The rights groups would blow a gasket first thing. I saw a couple get hauled out after death to be harvested and that in itself was a nightmare of paperwork for the people who had to get the signatures
 

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Question for the no's: person A needs a kidney to live. I happen to have a compatible spare I am willing to part with at a price amenable to both of us. How, exactly, is it anyone else 's business?
 

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Everybody in a transplant profits, the recipient, the doctors, the hospitals, etc., . Everyone but the donor.

If you want to give yours away, fine. It is yours, after all. If someone else wants to sell theirs, fine, it is theirs.

I wonder how the responses in this thread compare to people's positions on ADM's?
 

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After some though, I think I'd be for it with proper controls. I mean, we don't want people exchanging organs for cash in the streets, or something, like a drug deal. As long as the transaction can be conducted safely for both parties, I don't really see an issue. I guess I don't really understand all the ethical objections.
 

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Keep this on topic, I still have LL’s hammer he passed on to me.
So was this an organ donation or was there some sort of compensation?

:D

I'm still trying to wrap my head around having "extra eyes" from the first post I think. I understand there are some systems that have extra but in order for our brain to fully view our world, perceive depth, motion, etc... we need both eyes.

I think there could be ways to make sure all parties benefit and perform the transaction safely but I see an amazing cascade of problems. Say you have rules and regs in place to make sure every one is safe and paid, no easy feat but you got it, then the arguments arise that "only the rich can afford it," and "is it ethical to exclude treatment for the poor when there are options?" Government intervenes, committees are formed, millions of dollars are spent researching the problem and concocting a solution. The solution costs billions, government subsidizes, taxes, and gives tax breaks all around, problem isn't completely solved, new problems pop up, more govt intervention. More money, nothing solved (Slippery slope fallacy I know but this doesn't sound unfamiliar at all).

...and Maximus said to Commodus, "the time for honoring yourself will soon come to an end."
 
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I could see this working out. You sign up as an organ donor, and when you die your organs are harvested. The sale of the organs goes to your estate. In the case of donating while still alive, that would be up to the individual and the recipient to come to terms. Every organ would be processed and have to have a complete record from donor to recipient.
 

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