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A lot of people are talking about “perverse incentives.” I guess they mean “people being sentenced to death simply so their organs can be harvested.” It would

A lot of people are talking about “perverse incentives.” I guess they mean “people being sentenced to death simply so their organs can be harvested.” It would be nice to see some evidence that actually happened. I’m not an admirer of the CCP, but it doesn’t seem trial judges are under any pressure to give death sentences simply to supply organs. China has a very large prison population. Including many “lifers.” Many of the prisoners have perfectly fine organs. Yet there doesn’t seem to be pressure to move any of these prisoners to death row to get at their organs. One good argument against it is that it stigmatizes organ donation. In fact, it really should be called “organ confiscation” or just plain “execution.” It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing.

franga2000 5y ago
> It doesn’t set a standard of organ donation being a good thing. The donation part, outside of specific cases like kidneys where they can be donated by a living person, is never a "good thing" if you're looking at where it came from - usually someone dying in a car accident or worse. And besides, harvesting organs from death row inmates isn't a donation, so it wouldn't really dilute that. fwiw, I'm not defending taking organs from death row inmates, just replying to this specific concern. Hell, I'd much rather we took organs from any dead body we can - the idea of bodily integrity for a corpse being valued so much we'd rather let people die than violate it is IMO one of our biggest failures as a society.