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Not all capabilities are positive-value for the owner - being able to sell your kidneys means that people will have an incentive to extort you into giving up a
by ThrustVectoring 10y ago
Not all capabilities are positive-value for the owner - being able to sell your kidneys means that people will have an incentive to extort you into giving up a kidney.
Also, letting people make the best decision for them isn't the same thing as the best rule for everyone to follow. Tragedy of the Commons is the best example for this - if everyone makes their best choice for how many fish to catch, the lake gets emptied.
I really ought to turn the above two points into a detailed blog post aimed at libertarians. (Libertarians make good points, too - generally they have better policies than the ones they critique. These processes are some of the biggest things that libertarians categorically ignore, though.)
- yummyfajitas 10y agoIn theory this is true. Is there major kidney related extortion in Iran, where kidney sales are legal? What similar extortion do you see in other similar markets? Is there any reason to believe this is not a random, unsubstantiated fear?
- ThrustVectoring 10y ago>What similar extortion do you see in other similar markets? Perhaps a better example is the secret ballot.
- michaelmrose 10y agoWhere it's legal to sell kidneys I imagine people are presured by poverty to make medically unsound choices surely this is bad enough?
- DiThi 10y agoYou may have misunderstood the idea I wanted to explain. Look at my answers in this sub thread.