How Much Is That Kidney in the Window?
The United Network for Organ Sharing, the non-profit group in charge of matching donors with compatible recipients on the national waiting list, has come out in favor of financial incentives for organ donation, which are currently illegal. Pending the emergence of full-blown spleen markets, however, you can join LifeSharers, whose members each agree to give transplant priority for their own organs to other members.
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Excellent! All those cyberpunk books I read won't be wasted time anymore when I start my new career as an organlegger.
Dragoon, hopefully, you'll have the integrity to BUY your raw material (yecch!) or obtain it in some other moral way.
It's about damn time someone actually started to meaningfully realize that while the people who will just give away a vital organ and risk serious injury or death "just because" are few, there are a great number of people who would be incredibly happy - overjoyed even - to -trade-.
The idea that someone should get something incredibly value and useful, yet the person that gave it get absolutely nothing but a supposed warm fuzzy feeling, is just an absolute affront to the most basic (or complex, for that matter) sense of human fairness. It is the same sort of thing as with prostitution, in a slightly round about sense - the stupid idea that it is ok to do something for no money, but doing it for money is suddenly wrong and depraved and horrible. Silly, silly, silly, and stupid, stupid, stupid.
The above post was by me, Plutarck. Grrr.