The difference is that currently the amount a kidnapper could extract from an average person is not very high. If selling organs is allowed, suddenly the body of every person walking in the street is a worth a lot of money. It will drastically increase the probability of getting kidnapped for one's organs.
But the whole purpose of having a government at all is to prevent people from murdering, defrauding, kidnapping (all of which involve force initiated against another).
Some might say that if someone buys an expensive life insurance policy, the probability that they will be murdered by the next of kin goes up. Or that if you buy a nice car, the probability that it will be stolen goes up. But that doesn't mean that anyone should be prevented from buying a nice car or a life insurance policy.
Issues of rights and justice need to be handled on an objective basis, and that requires an impartial arbiter to protect the rights of its citizen masters. That ideal arbiter and protector of rights (to life, liberty, and property) is the ideal government. Given the existence of even an imperfect government such as our own, the right solution to kidnapping is twofold: first, encourage the government do its job, which is to provide the conditions necessary to live your life without worrying about others initiating force against you; second, live your life as you see fit, without violating the rights of any other (because to do so would go deeply against your long-term self-interest - in the long run, lying/stealing/cheating/kidnapping etc. are all forms of cutting your own throat).
That is the purpose of the government but you do agree that certain policies can make accomplishing that purpose much much harder, maybe even impossible?
A nice car is not a good analogy since 1) buying one is a matter of choice and 2) kidnapping someone for a nice car is not likely to get someone seriously injured or killed (as long as one agrees to the kidnapper's demands) whereas kidnapping for organ donation is completely different.
You know, you only live so long. It's not as if you have an indefinite amount of time and money over the course of your life.
If you work for years and save to buy that nice car, and someone steals it from you, someone has taken part of your life away. Even if the blow is distributed across a lot of people via an insurance policy, this is still true.
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The difference is that currently the amount a kidnapper could extract from an average person is not very high. If selling organs is allowed, suddenly the body of every person walking in the street is a worth a lot of money. It will drastically increase the probability of getting kidnapped for one's organs.
But the whole purpose of having a government at all is to prevent people from murdering, defrauding, kidnapping (all of which involve force initiated against another).
Some might say that if someone buys an expensive life insurance policy, the probability that they will be murdered by the next of kin goes up. Or that if you buy a nice car, the probability that it will be stolen goes up. But that doesn't mean that anyone should be prevented from buying a nice car or a life insurance policy.
Issues of rights and justice need to be handled on an objective basis, and that requires an impartial arbiter to protect the rights of its citizen masters. That ideal arbiter and protector of rights (to life, liberty, and property) is the ideal government. Given the existence of even an imperfect government such as our own, the right solution to kidnapping is twofold: first, encourage the government do its job, which is to provide the conditions necessary to live your life without worrying about others initiating force against you; second, live your life as you see fit, without violating the rights of any other (because to do so would go deeply against your long-term self-interest - in the long run, lying/stealing/cheating/kidnapping etc. are all forms of cutting your own throat).
That is the purpose of the government but you do agree that certain policies can make accomplishing that purpose much much harder, maybe even impossible?
A nice car is not a good analogy since 1) buying one is a matter of choice and 2) kidnapping someone for a nice car is not likely to get someone seriously injured or killed (as long as one agrees to the kidnapper's demands) whereas kidnapping for organ donation is completely different.
You know, you only live so long. It's not as if you have an indefinite amount of time and money over the course of your life.
If you work for years and save to buy that nice car, and someone steals it from you, someone has taken part of your life away. Even if the blow is distributed across a lot of people via an insurance policy, this is still true.