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If 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 sl

• zozbot234 5y ago
  This 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 ago
    At 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.