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Mass. Prisoners Could Choose Between Freedom and Their Organs

• elmerfud 4y ago
  Oh I see no problems that could arise from this. I sincerely hope that those who proposed this have only good intentions but alas I fear they heard about China and decided they wanted to get in on the action. We have an entire population of people who have demonstrated they're not good at making choices. They're now confined with a greatly curtailed set of rights. They're in a high stress, often violent environment and largely dehumanized. Some of these environments border on torturous. Now considering all that, when you dangle this carrot of getting out sooner do you thing they're capable of making a rational decision? I'm sure a few are and those would be the ones who decline doing this.
• trieste92 4y ago
  > in touch with the bill sponsors and [are] cognizant of the significant problem of racial inequity in our health system that has left BIPOC communities disproportionately impacted by organ and marrow shortages. On the other hand said communities are overrepresented in the prison system, so you could spin this on its head and see it as organ harvesting targeted at minority communities Which oddly enough seems like a more likely side effect than addressing related quote. Also consider that rich (likely white) people are given priority for organ donation Looks like the more things change, the more they remain the same