> total stranger for free. I suppose we've all hit rock bottom then?
First, you haven't actually had your marrow sucked out for 6 hours after 5 days of medication. Second, there's a distinct difference between the people who donate their organs for free and those who sell them. Go back and read the statistics I posted.
> For the sake of poor people, transplant patients, and sex workers everywhere, please don't impose your own backwards morals on everyone else.
I'm really not, I'm just expressing my opinion. I'm sorry you're so offended as to feel imposed upon, but it really is just a block of text on the internet. No need to get catty.
Find me people begging to sell their organs and I'll concede that it's a good idea.
Well, you found one. Even though I'm willing to give my marrow away, if the government or an insurance company wanted to pay me for doing so, I would take the money without hesitation. Why the hell not? I might even sell a kidney if the fee was enough to change the course of my life. I don't see what misguided principle would compel me to turn down the offer. If anything, my principles would compel me to accept it, knowing that someone's life depends on it.
Doctors, police officers, and firefighters accept enormous personal sacrifices and risks in order to save lives, yet we have no qualms about paying them and they have no qualms about getting paid. And even though most of them aren't in it for the money, if we didn't pay them then we wouldn't have them.
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Myself and numerous other people here have signed up to give our bone marrow to a total stranger for free. I suppose we've all hit rock bottom then?
For the sake of poor people, transplant patients, and sex workers everywhere, please don't impose your own backwards morals on everyone else.
> total stranger for free. I suppose we've all hit rock bottom then?
First, you haven't actually had your marrow sucked out for 6 hours after 5 days of medication. Second, there's a distinct difference between the people who donate their organs for free and those who sell them. Go back and read the statistics I posted.
> For the sake of poor people, transplant patients, and sex workers everywhere, please don't impose your own backwards morals on everyone else.
I'm really not, I'm just expressing my opinion. I'm sorry you're so offended as to feel imposed upon, but it really is just a block of text on the internet. No need to get catty.
Find me people begging to sell their organs and I'll concede that it's a good idea.
Well, you found one. Even though I'm willing to give my marrow away, if the government or an insurance company wanted to pay me for doing so, I would take the money without hesitation. Why the hell not? I might even sell a kidney if the fee was enough to change the course of my life. I don't see what misguided principle would compel me to turn down the offer. If anything, my principles would compel me to accept it, knowing that someone's life depends on it.
Doctors, police officers, and firefighters accept enormous personal sacrifices and risks in order to save lives, yet we have no qualms about paying them and they have no qualms about getting paid. And even though most of them aren't in it for the money, if we didn't pay them then we wouldn't have them.
I see your point, but I think we'll just have to agree to disagree.