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Old 05-07-2008, 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by TakuanSoho View Post
You can do what you want with your body, it is the selling of your body parts that is the issue. If you want to donate your kidney, you are perfectly free to do that.

This is not a libertarian issue, it is a commercial issue. Legalizing the selling of body parts is going to open a whole can of problems.
If I wish to voluntarily sell a part of my own body and a willing buyer is willing to pay me for it, what business is that of yours?
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