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by anigbrowl 3319 days ago
Putting organs on the market will make those existing structural ethical dilemmas (which I fulminate about here pretty regularly, going back a long time) more obvious because it makes them worse. Making things worse is not, in my experience, the first step in making things better. How many innocent people do you propose to sacrifice on the altar of your intellect in order to persuade the 'casual bystanders' to adopt your position?

This sounds little different than the failed Marxist strategy of 'sharpening the contradictions of capitalism' in hopes of awakening class consciousness among the proletariat. Your eschatology seems to suffer from some glaring ethical flaws from where I'm sitting.

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You're reading my commentary as a defense of the practice, which it isn't.
You're normalizing it, a;beit unintentionally, by equating a chronic loss of economic agency with an acute loss in the form of a single transaction.