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From my point of view, the issue in buying and thus selling organs is that it creates an incentive to hack someone and sell the body parts piece by piece (like
by seren 11y ago
From my point of view, the issue in buying and thus selling organs is that it creates an incentive to hack someone and sell the body parts piece by piece (like it is rumored to happen in China).
So as long as we can't grow organs, I think it is preferable to not create that kind of incentive.
On the other hand, you could argue that the fact there is no market will hinder some innovation. But given the scarcity of organs, I am pretty sure than producing mechanical hearts or eyes would find pretty of interested people anyway.
- kamaal 11y agoFor poor people there are always a stack of problems. Access to precious resources is just the problem on the top of the stack. Even if you did solve the problem, other problems in the stack would start popping up. Being rich always helps.
- lr4444lr 11y agoBut it's already illegal to sell organs and yet this harvesting still happens. Anything people will pay enough for to push providers past the fear of getting caught is going to generate a black market. If the money received by the organ registry on a highest-bidder basis were earmarked exclusively to research on synthetic alternatives, I believe would probably get to a better world faster than the current state of affairs.
- coldtea 11y ago>But it's already illegal to sell organs and yet this harvesting still happens. That fact that something already happens while being illegal is not an argument in itself against decriminalizing it. Murder and rape happen too despite being illegal, for example.