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by renewiltord 800 days ago
> I imagine it's because we find it morally gross to harvest organs from the healthy poor.

That is correct. The objection is solely from having a high divinity quotient in one's moral foundations causing one to rationalize visceral reactions to an obviously sensible process.

After all, the argument you then propose applies to egg donation, sperm donation, surrogacy, logging, and life insurance. People who might do it for free, might be coerced instead. And yet we have flourishing industries there and life is better for it.

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Egg donation, sperm donation, life insurance, and logging are pretty different, but surrogacy is a good comparison. And, like organ harvesting, a lot of people find surrogacy for money to be morally objectional, for example the Pope, and also the governments of most countries.
The Pope protects child abusers. His opinion usually means the opposite is better.