In response to Luke Goodnetter's 2nd Post: Organs For Sale, I have to say that I disagree with a few of his main points. For his first point, I do not think that there would be a problem in society between the upper and lower class. Even today, with no legalization of organ selling, there are still lower class, poorer, people that need organs that are not able to get them. I believe that legalizing organ selling would have an opposite effect, and that there would be more organs available to people who need them so he price would be lower and more lower class people would be able to afford them.
Luke’s next point is that allowing the selling of organs would give a greater possibility that patients may get severely hurt or injured during surgery. Although that surgery is a risky procedure altogether, all organ surgery has the same high-risk possibility. The surgery depends on the doctoral ability, and a competent doctor should be able to remove a kidney if a patient needs it. Also, assuming that organ-selling is made legal, there would be regulations on how many organs you can possibly sell, and obviously you cannot sell so many organs that you die once an organ is removed. Also, the selling of your organs is your decision, it’s not like a person is forced to. So if you sell a kidney, you need to realize that you are not able to drink the same or eat the exact same as you did with two kidneys. But the choice is still yours.
And to Luke’s last point, assuming that organ selling is made legal, then there would be regulations, laws, and checkups on the people selling the organs. The hospital would not just let some random person with a damaged kidney sell it to someone who is in need of one. The selling of organs would create a whole new business that could possibly benefit a lot of people.
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