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Legalizing the selling of organs

Should Organ transactions for $ be legalized?

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 58.3%

  • No

    Votes: 4 33.3%

  • It depends

    Votes: 1 8.3%
  • Total voters
    12
JoeMama

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So what do you think?

Should there be a legal transaction for selling/buying organs?

I'd like to see what you folks think, there is a rational, and very interesting argument here :cheers:
 
Of course it should be legal, but only to sell your own organs, which obviously can be proven genetically.
 
Of course it should be legal. It's my damn body, I should be able to sell whatever I want of it. I sell my mind every day, I also sell the actions of every single other part of my body. I sell the strength of my arms, legs, and back. I sell the ability of my fingers, hands, and mouth/voice. I can sell my plasma too. And my eggs. And give away my blood. I can lease my body to be used by science (clinical trials).

Why the hell shouldn't I be allowed to sell a kidney? I can sure as **** GIVE one away, so why not sell it?
 
rivrrat said:
Why the hell shouldn't I be allowed to sell a kidney? I can sure as **** GIVE one away, so why not sell it?
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The opposing argument (which isn't my position anyway) says that it creates a system in which poor people start selling their organs to rich people who can afford it.
 
JoeMama said:
The opposing argument (which isn't my position anyway) says that it creates a system in which poor people start selling their organs to rich people who can afford it.
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Well than you could also say that the rich people who may employ the poor people will die and it may cause more poor people to suffer a severe job loss. If the poor person voluntarily decides to do so who cares?

As it is now since you can't sell them there is a shortage of available organs.
 
JoeMama said:
The opposing argument (which isn't my position anyway) says that it creates a system in which poor people start selling their organs to rich people who can afford it.
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I'm not sure I see the problem with that. People are always selling their minds, their labor, their services, etc to people who can afford it. Wouldn't the whole point of selling something to begin with be that someone will buy it?
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
As it is now since you can't sell them there is a shortage of available organs.
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I agree, I was just trying to show the opposing side...:rolleyes:

As of now it is not legal. So there must be a great deal of people out there who oppose the idea.
 
I want to know if there really is a blackmarket for organs and where do they get them and who do they sell them to and all that?


As far as legalizing the selling, I guess I could care less, unless it put the person selling the organ at an unhealthy risk.
 
rivrrat said:
I'm not sure I see the problem with that. People are always selling their minds, their labor, their services, etc to people who can afford it. Wouldn't the whole point of selling something to begin with be that someone will buy it?
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Right but I said before:
"The opposing argument (which isn't my position anyway) says that it creates a system in which poor people start selling their organs to rich people who can afford it."
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americanwoman said:
I want to know if there really is a blackmarket for organs and where do they get them and who do they sell them to and all that?
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Yes, and you brought up a great point.
As of now, because organs are so hard to get, there is a black market - at a very high price.

And because of the black market with high prices, it creates a bad incentive.
-In 3rd world countries, people are killed for their organs, or wake up one day with out a kidney - because people have 'stole' their organs for $

A lot of people want to legalize it, because if you do, you eliminate the black market. Because when it is legal, prices drop, their is regulation (more sanitary conditions and such), and there goes the black market.

It's a game of pure incentives
 
Selling a testicle has long been an urban myth that quite a few men looked forward to.

LET ME SELL MY NUTT!
 
rivrrat said:
JoeMama said:
The opposing argument (which isn't my position anyway) says that it creates a system in which poor people start selling their organs to rich people who can afford it.
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I'm not sure I see the problem with that. People are always selling their minds, their labor, their services, etc to people who can afford it. Wouldn't the whole point of selling something to begin with be that someone will buy it?
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Well yes but now you are getting to the heart of the matter; the problem is wage-labour itself. This is the same reason that prostitution exists.
 
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