Thread: Should people be free to sell their kidney’s for a profit?
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Old 05-07-2008, 05:23 PM
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No, he did not get "priority", people volunteered to do it. That is very different from his merely being able to purchase the priority.

As for your argument. It is pathetic. Encouraging trading 5K or 10K now for something that could cause grave health risks years down the road is inhumane.
Do you dispute that the 500 or so people who offered to donate their kidneys wouldn’t have done so if Morning wasn’t a celebrity? To me I don’t see much of an ethical difference.

Currently 12 percent of the United States population are on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. Why would you allow these people to die to satisfy your own ethos? Why shouldn’t people who are not celebrities be able to use the resources the DO have, ie health insurance, to save their own lives.
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