[Arainach]

Financial transactions are rarely a matter of consent between equals. There is almost always a power imbalance, particularly when medical issues are involved.

The law, in its majestic equality, allows rich and poor alike to sell their internal organs to try to make their power bill payment next month.

That's without explicit coercion (sure, I'll do X for you, so long as you sell your kidney).

[BurningFrog]

That consent can only occur between equals is a principle that only gets applied to things people want to ban for other reasons.

We all buy things daily from entities with much more power than ourselves, for example.

[keiferski]

Focusing on equal relations is missing the point, which is that the corporation (a more powerful entity) is selling you things, not the other way around. “Punching down” isn’t acceptable, and all that.

[spencerchubb]

I think we can all agree that coercion would be bad here. It is currently illegal and should remain illegal.

Hypothetically, if someone wants to sell a kidney to pay the bills, and they are of sound mind, the government shouldn't stop them.