Organ Sale: Should we legalize the sale of human organs?
Organ sale covers a wide range of different practices. Most people readily associate it with the case in which one individual sells his or her organ to another. Legalization of organ sale has been a major issue due to its health and ethical concerns to the people who sell their organs to save their lives from poverty. Therefore, organ selling should not be legalized in order to save our human dignity and moral values.
There are many reasons why organ sale exists and this can be explained scientifically and socially. Each one of us have different illnesses and most of them are suffering from organ failures. The best way to replace this malfunctioning organs is organ transplantation. This …show more content…
One of its concerns is its harmful effects to the buyer and the seller. The poor health buyers may receive an incompatible donor and may worsen his or her case instead of making it better. Also, the seller is further exacerbated by depression and other illnesses brought by the stress of donating and insufficient care after the surgery. Trapped in poverty, the poor people has no choice but sells his organ despite of the consequence he or she is about to face. On the other hand, the rich people in need of organs manipulates the poor to sell his or her organs in exchange for an insufficient amount of cash. This clearly states the exploitation and unfair advantages of the poor to the rich and the powerful. Despite of these negative effects, organ sale also has few advantages. One of these is the saving of lives of people suffering from organ failures. Yes, it is true that organ sale may save a life but remember that it also takes the other person’s …show more content…
Human Dignity is the value which makes us a human being. This virtue is that only man the human race has and is not possessed by other creatures. But due to the manipulation of the rich to the poor to sell their organs, the poor loses his or her dignity because of their desperation to earn easy money. They will do any means of persuasion to the needy to get what they want. Giving the person a very high offer in exchange for their organ. By the time they accept the offer, they lose their dignity and at the same time, they were deluded. According to Charles Fried, an American jurist and lawyer, “When a man sells his body, he does not sell what is his, he sells
Organ sale covers a wide range of different practices. Most people readily associate it with the case in which one individual sells his or her organ to another. Legalization of organ sale has been a major issue due to its health and ethical concerns to the people who sell their organs to save their lives from poverty. Therefore, organ selling should not be legalized in order to save our human dignity and moral values.
There are many reasons why organ sale exists and this can be explained scientifically and socially. Each one of us have different illnesses and most of them are suffering from organ failures. The best way to replace this malfunctioning organs is organ transplantation. This …show more content…
One of its concerns is its harmful effects to the buyer and the seller. The poor health buyers may receive an incompatible donor and may worsen his or her case instead of making it better. Also, the seller is further exacerbated by depression and other illnesses brought by the stress of donating and insufficient care after the surgery. Trapped in poverty, the poor people has no choice but sells his organ despite of the consequence he or she is about to face. On the other hand, the rich people in need of organs manipulates the poor to sell his or her organs in exchange for an insufficient amount of cash. This clearly states the exploitation and unfair advantages of the poor to the rich and the powerful. Despite of these negative effects, organ sale also has few advantages. One of these is the saving of lives of people suffering from organ failures. Yes, it is true that organ sale may save a life but remember that it also takes the other person’s …show more content…
Human Dignity is the value which makes us a human being. This virtue is that only man the human race has and is not possessed by other creatures. But due to the manipulation of the rich to the poor to sell their organs, the poor loses his or her dignity because of their desperation to earn easy money. They will do any means of persuasion to the needy to get what they want. Giving the person a very high offer in exchange for their organ. By the time they accept the offer, they lose their dignity and at the same time, they were deluded. According to Charles Fried, an American jurist and lawyer, “When a man sells his body, he does not sell what is his, he sells