Hotu Matua Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 (edited) I think trade of organs should be made legal. I think this trade can be moral, since I own my body, every organ of it, and it is up to me to decide to give one of them for free or in exchange for something. Making it legal would become part of the solution of poverty and shortage of organs: Thousands of people (millions, if we project it to the future) could avoid death by lack of transplant donor. Those extra productive years will help them pursue their values and the overall happiness of individuals and families. Thousands / millions of poor people would get enough money to change the destiny of their families forever, by buying equipment, seeds, a car, paying for the education of their children, etc. Surgeons, nurses, lab techinicians and hospitals would have more transplants to do, which would give them more revenues. Pharmaceutical companies could sell more drugs to avoid rejection and infections. A new trading system will appear, based on the job of finding the right donor for the right recipient. You could find your donor on your own or hire these "transplat agencies" that would get the right one for you in no time. What do you think? Edited November 8, 2009 by Hotu Matua Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamantLaw Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 It should be like the trade of any other private commodity. Nothing about it being part of our bodies makes it different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 $10 bucks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted November 8, 2009 Report Share Posted November 8, 2009 Next thing you know, people will be trading their labor for money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAllotrope Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Next thing you know, people will be trading their labor for money. I had to laugh at this one. I don't think anyone on this forum will ever object to anyone's sale of his own organs, when such a sale 1) does not harm him (humans can work with 1 kidney no problem) 2) he benefits from it and 3) there is a willing buyer for that value. Definitely one of the tragedies of the modern world that Iran allows the sale of organs (and has no waiting list) yet the US doesn't (and does have a waiting list). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whYNOT Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I've got a slightly used heart for sale. Would this be moral? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rearden_Steel Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 (edited) I've got a slightly used heart for sale. Would this be moral? Why? Is there a dead hooker in your closet? Edited November 9, 2009 by Rearden_Steel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RationalBiker Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Why? Is there a dead hooker in your closet? Oh boy, dead hooker jokes. This dead hooker walks into a bar.... NOT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I take it the used heart comes with a lifetime guarantee? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whYNOT Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I take it the used heart comes with a lifetime guarantee? Yep. ONLY got 1.7 billion beats on the clock; owned by a very light smoker, and only been broken twice. Would I lie to you ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whYNOT Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Seriously though, I can't see any moral or legal loop-holes in the proposition of trading organs. It comes back to whose body is it anyway? It does raise a whole complex issue of people pre-selling their kidneys, retinas, heart, etc., prior to their death; OH yes, and a sharp upturn in the murder rate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamantLaw Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 Seriously though, I can't see any moral or legal loop-holes in the proposition of trading organs. It comes back to whose body is it anyway? It does raise a whole complex issue of people pre-selling their kidneys, retinas, heart, etc., prior to their death; OH yes, and a sharp upturn in the murder rate... No more a problem than people being murdered for their other material possessions, and preselling is just an extension of existing "living will" laws, I'd imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWEarl Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 OH yes, and a sharp upturn in the murder rate... Except that the question isn't whether or not it's moral to sell someone else's organs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWEarl Posted November 9, 2009 Report Share Posted November 9, 2009 I think trade of organs should be made legal. ... What do you think? Giddy-up. If it's mine, I should be allowed to sell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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