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Originally Posted by coyote
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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But it doesn't matter why they did it. They volunteered to do it. What you are saying is something like saying: "it is unfair that a brother volunteers his kidney to his sibling". That is not "unfair".
Unfair would be that rich people could buy a kidney and poor people would suffer. That is what commercialization of organ donation would create.