I reject the notion that "desperate" people will choose to sell their kidneys.
As evidenced above, they could just as easily have them stolen.
zifnab25
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I want to see everyone who needs a kidney get one
Then reducing kidney failure is a critical first step. Improving the quality and accessibility of dialysis and comparable treatments would be a big second. Developing prosthetics would be up there, too. And figuring out how to economically incentivize carving organs out of desperate people would be way down the line.
Just because some people have harvested organs in inhumane ways does not mean there is no ethical way to encourage people to donate kidneys.
Listen, I'm not saying the fox who guarded the hen house didn't eat a few hens. I'm saying that this new fox (who looks shockingly similar to the old fox) can be trained to guard the hen house under a strict and reliable ethics code.
I could probably point to barbaric instances of praxis for any philosophy.
Damn. Almost like the entire privatized health care system is plagued with moral hazard. But since there's nothing to be done, might as well turn a blind eye to yet another form of atrocity.
Why would somebody who wants to purchase a kidney want to donate a kidney in the first place?
It's almost as though the end goal of a legal kidney market isn't to facilitate simple familial donations at all.
This kidney harvesting scheme is nothing like what those slaves went through.
The existing organ harvesting practices are nothing short of absolute barbarity. I have little reason to believe a future profit-motivated industrial scale effort to remove organs from the most vulnerable and desperate people will be any less grotesque.
It is a way to encourage fairly-well-off middle-class people to donate their kidneys.
If we can't even do blood donation ethically, how the hell are we going to handle organ donations? Fairly well-off middle-class people aren't going to donate anything if they can purchase (or get their insurance company to purchase on their behalf) organs on a secondary market.
Oh well, time to start genociding the regions on the map that are too China-friendly until we can get those numbers back in line.
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Magic is NOT real.
Big meat engine that looks for patterns go brrrr...
Amazon adheres to a rules based international order. 
The great thing about IRL over video games is that you absolutely can just press-gang chunks of your miniscule population (or import a shit ton of foreign mercenaries with inherited loot of a prior generation) whether or not a video game developer considers it a prudent tactical choice.
George Washington had a mouth full of his slave's teeth because he rotted the original pair through.
One might argue that regular dental visits and cavity treatment wouldn't have saved every tooth in his jaw, but maybe let's give it a shot before we go around yanking other folks' molars out with a pair of rusty pliers.
We're sorry you feel bad (addendum: but go fuck yourself)