> but are we ok with buying people just because it’s for the good? I will tell you my simple answer for this: Yes. If in the end the results are better for hum

> but are we ok with buying people just because it’s for the good? I will tell you my simple answer for this: Yes. If in the end the results are better for humanity as whole, I can tell you, I, personally, am fine with buying people for money and even with other, even LESS moral means. I think we should not let our sense of morality stay in the way of what could improve things. I know it sound horrible, heartless and imoral, but there are plenty of cases along history when taking the moral high ground led to worse outcomes for everyone involved. I will tell you the reason why he's downvoted. His talking points were based on mostly nationalistic sentiment and used as a talking point in the Romanian elections and politics for a LONG time and by a lot of self-interested people. There is a lot of background to the national context here that's hard to explain, but for example, last 2 election cycles, our current president, Klaus Johannis, was being painted by the opposition as a child trafficker because sometime in the 90's assisted with an adoption of a child by a canadian couple. They tried paining him as a child trafficker and promoting obvious lies, such that the children were sold so that they would harvest their organs. Really egregious stuff. They basically fan the flames of the "us, the great Romania" against the "evil and manipulative West that is holding us down" that was planted _very_ deep in the Romania psyche by the communist regime. I assume most downvotes came from Romanians, of witch, I assume, there are many more on HN than one would believe.