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I think execution is absolutely wrong and never morally justifiable. However I don’t see why execution + organ harvesting is worse than execution alone.
by elil17 5y ago
I think execution is absolutely wrong and never morally justifiable. However I don’t see why execution + organ harvesting is worse than execution alone.
- throwanem 5y agoThere's a perverse incentive, especially if medical tourism also exists.
- duxup 5y agoIt certainly could provide some perverse motivations. Any effort to stop executions now includes the fact that potential donors recipients will die.
- kaba0 5y agoIt supposes that not enough organs are in circulation. Even with the opt-out donation model of some European countries they usually have surprisingly short waiting lists for most organs, as unfortunately plenty of accidental deaths occur every day.
- zuppy 5y agobecause it can be an incentive to kill people for money, due to corruption.
- ComradePhil 5y agoWhere's the outrage and incentive debates when fully formed human babies are "aborted" and sent to be burned for biofuel? All done by for-profit companies all the way through. I definitely didn't see it here in HackerNews.
- kaba0 5y agoWhat the hell are you talking about? Do you even know what a 20 weeks fetus look like? And wtf, why would anyone burn some 30g thingy for biofuel? Especially that plenty of abortions are simply a heavier than usual blood flow, not a surgical operation of getting a baby out of someone, smh.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y agoYou do realize woke politicians are trying to make it legal to abort an infant after it was born right? For any reason.. At the same time they are sexualizing and grooming kids.
- kaba0 5y agoI would like to see a source on any of that. Something that is not 4chan-level…
- clamprecht 5y agoIt sets up weird incentives.
- belter 5y agoThey were still alive...
- alephnan 5y agoIt was an execution...
- tempestn 5y agoExactly. I agree with the perverse incentives involved in harvesting their organs at all. But I see no difference between anesthetyzing someone and removing their heart, and giving them a lethal injection. The former may well be less painful. (Strongly against the death penalty in any form.)
- robonerd 5y agoWere alive.
- ourmandave 5y agoIt violates individual autonomy. It creates a motivation to find the innocent guilty. Never underestimate how absolutely low someone will go to make a buck.
- dennis_jeeves1 5y agoAs they say the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- nomay 5y agoThe Chinese jail system is as corrupt as you can think, since many connected people would like to take advantage of their connections and noboby wants to deny them. An inmate's death sentence can be commuted to as less as 12 years after this process. https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%99%E5%B0%8F%E6%9E%9C https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AD%99%E5%B0%8F%E6%9E%9C
- pfortuny 5y agoMmmmh… Organ harvesting as it is called is not quite the humane thing to do, even if the subject was a convict. Unless of course he is a DONOR.