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I was hoping the OP comment would be flagged dead rather quickly, but this was essentially my response too. I emigrated from the US to Canada purely because of
by munk-a 6y ago
I was hoping the OP comment would be flagged dead rather quickly, but this was essentially my response too. I emigrated from the US to Canada purely because of this pervasive mentality that "I can't suffer you to benefit unless I'm getting something out of the deal". It isn't held by everyone in America or even the majority as far as I've seen - but what's weird is that in the US that view is socially acceptable and that's pretty horrifying to me.
Not everything in life is a transaction where you're either the winner or the loser. Trying to measure things in that manner will lead you to lose out on a lot of joy.
- temp667 6y agoThe issue is that you are supporting a bunch of for profit businesses making an absolute killing, while not even throwing table scraps to the key players, the donors. If someone is going to harvest my Organs and get paid $800K+ per year (California Transplant Surgeon's probably average $750K and some are making $2-3M/year) it's really hard to swallow your and their morally superior tone.
- munk-a 6y agoHey - I absolutely applaud you if you're going to help tear down the private portions of the organ trade business. It should be a publicly managed service like healthcare in general - but for now this is what we're stuck with and a lot of innocent lives are on the line. I think that, in the long run, it's pretty immoral to throw table scraps at the donors since it'll create some very perverse market incentives to make certain your organ isn't "being wasted" on some penniless orphan somewhere. I decided to leave insane American wages behind for a society that cares more about egalitarianism - that isn't solving the problem but it's the best contribution I can personally make.