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Why do people do this?
by tomrod 5y ago
Why do people do this?
- hh3k0 5y agoMoney.
- madaxe_again 5y agoFear. State-sponsored vivisection is a pretty strong deterrent against dissent.
- robbedpeter 5y agoChina is run by gangsters, essentially. They make Mexican cartels look like Mother Theresa on some levels.
- hh3k0 5y agoIt's not widely known. In fact, I'd wager if you'd tell a Chinese person about it, they'd simply refuse to believe your "Western propaganda". Money is the real motivation here, as the harvested organs fetch quite the price.
- 0des 5y agoWhen there are enough people you stop thinking of them as lives that have value. Naturally the ones in prison are the least desirable.
- fullshark 5y agoThe needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
- mysterydip 5y agoAre you volunteering?
- CyanBird 5y agoSeveral western countries are already using opt out for organ donation rather than opt in, as many countries have overly long wait times and people die waiting for a liver or lungs etc What unlike the US or China, many countries just don't have anymore are death sentences, so it is not really that much of a discussion to kill prisoners and then harvest their organs, because these countries would just not kill people like that
- epgui 5y agoThey’re just answering the question.
- nosianu 5y agoSo I was about to write something flippant in opposition about it possibly being the reverse, the many serving the few (powerful), but since I felt I don't really know what I'm talking about I googled. I found an interesting document authored by the "German Institute for International and Security Affairs" [0] (A semi-official organization with close links to the federal government, it advises the Bundestag (the German parliament) and the federal government on foreign and security policy issues). The document is titled "Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law" [1] and describes Chinese goals for developing the rule of law in China over the next decade. I found it very interesting and IMO relevant to the discussion, to see where they want to go, even if it's not outright on topic. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_International_and_Security_Affairs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Institute_for_Internati... [1] https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2021C28/ https://www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2021C28/
- hh3k0 5y agoMore like: some oligarch's need for a new heart outweighs a poor Chinese prisoner's need for his own.
- j4yav 5y agoAuthoritarianism.
- space_fountain 5y agoIf you’re going to be killing people anyway it’s easy to start thinking that their organs shouldn’t go to waste, of course this is starting you on a slippery slope that’s better not even to start on
- zozbot234 5y agoThis is of course fallacious because waste is inherent to criminal punishment - you're literally inflicting something undesirable on someone, at a cost to yourself. Making sure that the costs of criminal punishment are shared helps keep every involved party honest. This is also an argument against things like privatized prisons and prison slavery in the U.S. If you're going to enslave prison inmates at all (and the U.S. Constitution allows this, so it does presently happen) it should be strictly to their own long-term benefit in their future capacity as free, law-abiding citizens.
- loceng 5y agoAt the same time you're incentivizing capital punishment and perhaps incentivizing persecution of people of a specific donor match, so then magically sooner than later enough donors become available to fill the needs of a wait list until the desired recipient has the organ(s) they need - or they may simply need a single donor and get to skip any lines, if that level of corruption actually exists in that society.
- peoplefromibiza 5y agofor the same reason that some people kill other people putting them on electric chairs... they are violent savages.
- steve76 5y ago[dead]