How could it “not matter how it’s designed”? Do you realize how limiting that statement is? You’re saying there’s literally no way to ethically encourage people to donate their kidneys no matter how hard you try.
That’s absurd. You’re merely applying the general principle that capitalism is bad in all circumstances. Sure, let’s tear down capitalism – but if we live in a capitalist society, you can’t just draw a circle around what look to me like comparatively ethical capitalist practices and say “that’s ghoulish.”
What if kidney donors were awarded with a doctor’s note for paid time off work? Would that then be unethical? How about if the award is being bumped up to the top of the kidney donor’s list? (That’s real and already happening! Isn’t that ghoulish?)
Neither of those examples include monetary compensation for the kidney. The paid time off work should be a given for someone who is donating a kidney, but they are being compensated by their employer at the same rate they would have been had they just gone to work. Someone who makes $15/hr would actually “make” less off the kidney donation than someone making $50/hr, but either way they could have just not donated the kidney and ended up with the same amount of money…and their kidney.
It doesn’t really matter how its designed. The reality is that only desperate people are going to sell their organs.
How could it “not matter how it’s designed”? Do you realize how limiting that statement is? You’re saying there’s literally no way to ethically encourage people to donate their kidneys no matter how hard you try.
If money is changing hands, yes that is my opinion.
That’s absurd. You’re merely applying the general principle that capitalism is bad in all circumstances. Sure, let’s tear down capitalism – but if we live in a capitalist society, you can’t just draw a circle around what look to me like comparatively ethical capitalist practices and say “that’s ghoulish.”
What if kidney donors were awarded with a doctor’s note for paid time off work? Would that then be unethical? How about if the award is being bumped up to the top of the kidney donor’s list? (That’s real and already happening! Isn’t that ghoulish?)
Neither of those examples include monetary compensation for the kidney. The paid time off work should be a given for someone who is donating a kidney, but they are being compensated by their employer at the same rate they would have been had they just gone to work. Someone who makes $15/hr would actually “make” less off the kidney donation than someone making $50/hr, but either way they could have just not donated the kidney and ended up with the same amount of money…and their kidney.