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The reason it's not allowed is because it's judged to be bad for society to have the lower classes have to sell their kidneys to make ends meet.



For a pure cash sale. But IMO we could be exploring other incentives to donate that don’t have the same issues.


I noted this above, but one proposal is using a tax incentive: https://www.modifynota.org/


Of course it's bad that they have to. But not letting them do it doesn't magically make the ends meet. Right now, today, people have to sell their organs to make ends, but they can't, so they fail to make ends meet.

Your argument amounts to rejecting marginal improvement because it's still not good enough.


No, the argument is that there is no "marginal improvement", it's that it's a net negative for society to have poor people need to sell their kidneys to make ends meet.


"it's a net negative for society to have poor people need to sell their kidneys to make ends meet."

This is, again, not something that is being remedied by the ban. The need hasn't gone away simply because you've taken away the option. People remain poor and struggling in today's world.




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