Selling Body Parts
Posted on November 6, 2007 - Filed Under Health, Philosophy, Politics |
I have an essay to write on this matter, so I’m interested to hear other views. Do you think it should be legal to sell body parts such as kidneys to people who are willing to pay for them? On the one hand, people do it anyway on the black market, so legalisation would clean up the practice, and if there was an open market in body parts then waiting lists for organs would be vastly reduced if not eliminated. On the other hand, it seems a bit callous and insidious to promote a system where poor people might feel compelled by economic circumstances to sacrifice their health for the sake of a few thousand dollars. Another part of me also strongly believes that if somebody wrecks their health through negligence then they deserve to live with the ill effects of their irresponsible behaviour, and shouldn’t be able to foist their ill-health onto some desperate donor. But enough of my own ideas, what do you think?
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selling=bad
attract all the wrong people.
blackmarket=stupid=no doctor to transplant for you.