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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-01-07 12:28 AM
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60. Not Just Selling, But Mandating
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  -Transplant surgeon says kidneys should be for sale. LiberalHeart  Mar-31-07 06:36 PM   #0 
  - jeebus cripe  pitohui   Mar-31-07 06:39 PM   #1 
  - And I offered mine for free to Bombeck when she needed one.  LiberalHeart   Mar-31-07 06:42 PM   #2 
  - Choosing to donate an organ is MUCH different than creating a market  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 06:43 PM   #4 
  - I don't see how. It's not like they'd be taken by force.  LiberalHeart   Mar-31-07 06:45 PM   #5 
     - No not by force but by contractual coercion.  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 06:54 PM   #10 
        - I'd sell mine just for the promised follow up medical care.  LiberalHeart   Mar-31-07 07:03 PM   #18 
           - Which advances my point. You'd choose a known life-shortening donation  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:22 PM   #27 
  - yeah i'm not invested in being a good person  pitohui   Mar-31-07 06:55 PM   #11 
     - I registered with the Red Cross as bone marrow donor...then there was a match and --  LiberalHeart   Mar-31-07 07:08 PM   #21 
     - I've had a bone marrow transplant  gravity   Mar-31-07 07:49 PM   #42 
     - they were trying to protect you  pitohui   Mar-31-07 10:30 PM   #52 
     - Bone marrow, rbc's, plasma, etc, aren't the same as a vital organ  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:14 PM   #24 
  - I agree with you.  Skidmore   Mar-31-07 07:01 PM   #16 
  - It should be done on altruism but  gravity   Mar-31-07 07:05 PM   #19 
  - I will sell my kidney for 100,000.00  greenbriar   Mar-31-07 07:42 PM   #41 
  - And if your only one fails  gravity   Mar-31-07 08:11 PM   #44 
  - Nobody seemed to want to reply to my point when it was down at the botttom of the thread.  Jonathan50   Apr-01-07 08:07 AM   #64 
  - Nope. There should NOT be a free market in human organs.  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 06:42 PM   #3 
  - Ah, capitalism!  Karenina   Mar-31-07 06:47 PM   #6 
  - Hear hear  spoony   Mar-31-07 11:05 PM   #54 
  - We all know what would happen ...  BattyDem   Mar-31-07 06:49 PM   #7 
  - He's not talking about that kind of sale; he's talking about regulated sales.  LiberalHeart   Mar-31-07 06:53 PM   #9 
     - Everything starts out regulated ... but how long before someone suggests deregulation?  BattyDem   Mar-31-07 07:19 PM   #26 
  - A human is capable of producing enough adult stem cells  4MoronicYears   Mar-31-07 06:50 PM   #8 
  - i never heard of any kidney being regenerated  pitohui   Mar-31-07 06:57 PM   #12 
     - This "Nutrition Book" was penned by twenty (20) full fledged  4MoronicYears   Mar-31-07 06:58 PM   #14 
     - You haven't heard because it isn't currently possible  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 06:59 PM   # 
  - He does have a point, but I'd rather see...  TreasonousBastard   Mar-31-07 06:58 PM   #13 
  - Mandatory? Sorry, I Can't Grok That  Crisco   Mar-31-07 07:32 PM   #35 
     - Is there a human right in possession of one's body after one is dead? (n/t)  kiahzero   Mar-31-07 08:14 PM   #46 
     - One Certainly Has a Right to Determine Its Disposal  Crisco   Apr-01-07 12:25 AM   #57 
     - Why not? If one can argue the inherent human right to..  TreasonousBastard   Apr-01-07 03:06 AM   #61 
        - I'm Not the Extremist Here  Crisco   Apr-01-07 07:40 AM   #62 
  - I don't see much of a problem with it  gravity   Mar-31-07 06:59 PM   #15 
  - You don't? Say I want to sell 100% of someone's body parts.  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:03 PM   #17 
  - The choice should be on the person donating  gravity   Mar-31-07 07:12 PM   #22 
     - No. If you legalize the market, you create demand and you create a saleable asset  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:18 PM   #25 
     - "This has terrible consequences that are not the original intent but which spread out"  BattyDem   Mar-31-07 07:23 PM   #28 
     - Thanks. At least I'm not alone.  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:25 PM   #30 
     - Oh No! That's a STRAWMAN Argument!  Crisco   Mar-31-07 07:31 PM   #33 
     - Not really  gravity   Mar-31-07 07:35 PM   #38 
        - Like the medical community has protected patients from high drug costs  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:40 PM   #40 
           - You're assumptions are baseless  gravity   Mar-31-07 08:10 PM   #43 
              - Well, we basically disagree  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 08:22 PM   #48 
     - The concept is far too ripe for that abuse though.  spoony   Mar-31-07 11:07 PM   #55 
  - The ironic point in all this silliness is that at some point everyone's a whore.  karlrschneider   Mar-31-07 07:31 PM   #34 
     - I'd not call turning poor people into saleable pounds of flesh silly  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:36 PM   #39 
  - Owe the bank for a mortgage? Back taxes? ... "We've come for your liver."  Swamp Rat   Mar-31-07 07:07 PM   #20 
  - Unfortunately, that's exactly one aspect of the problem this would create.  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 07:23 PM   #29 
  - Thank you, Swamp Rat  junofeb   Mar-31-07 07:25 PM   #31 
  - The debt collectors will come ...  BattyDem   Mar-31-07 07:33 PM   #36 
  - Somehow, I knew . . .  CrazyOrangeCat   Mar-31-07 10:09 PM   #50 
  - I signed on as an organ donor many years ago...  rasputin1952   Mar-31-07 07:13 PM   #23 
  - Maybe I can sell my left nut...I don't use it much any more.  karlrschneider   Mar-31-07 07:26 PM   #32 
  - ROFL!  BattyDem   Mar-31-07 07:34 PM   #37 
  - Then you'll walk off balance ;-)  spoony   Mar-31-07 11:09 PM   #56 
  - Very bad war story follows  jmowreader   Apr-01-07 08:01 AM   #63 
  - Organs are for sale overseas particularly kidneys. Saddam had a thriving kidney transplant  jody   Mar-31-07 08:13 PM   #45 
  - The world we are creating  gollygee   Mar-31-07 08:17 PM   #47 
  - Yes. Quite a racket. The income gap is about to become an organ gap  HereSince1628   Mar-31-07 08:27 PM   #49 
  - Right out of a Phillip K Dick novel  loindelrio   Mar-31-07 10:14 PM   #51 
  - Not Just Selling, But Mandating  Crisco   Apr-01-07 12:28 AM   #60 
  - Absolutely Horrific  Crisco   Apr-01-07 12:27 AM   #59 
  - There already exists a black market for organs..  Jonathan50   Mar-31-07 10:45 PM   #53 
  - Hell no.  knitter4democracy   Apr-01-07 12:26 AM   #58 
 

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