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by tengbretson 2449 days ago
That argument applies equally well to buying kidneys from homeless people for $20. I hope we agree that that's bad.
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If you allowed people to sell their kidneys the market price would definitely be a lot higher and the trade in kidneys between homeless people and sick people would leave both groups a lot better off. Today you have one group dying in the street and the other dying waiting for a transplant.
And if a few homeless people die from transplant complications, hey they volunteered! And now we can stop investing in social welfare because a steady supply of homeless bodies improves the health of the middle class!

The world is not linear, it has feedback effects.

Oh come on, surely you must realize that selling limited copyright to a digital likeness of your face is much different than selling a literal body part.
Of course it's different. It's obviously different. That doesn't make "if it was a bad exchange they wouldn't do it" a good argument in support of either of those examples.