Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Doing More Work On Proposing
I finished my inquiry contract proposal. I have decided to research and write about the organ trade, its black market, and the issues regarding legality. Like in the issues over whether or not to legalize drugs, it is extremely interesting to look at the situation with the organ sales and try to predict what would happen if it became legal. Do you sacrifice one person's ethical viewpoint for another person's life? I've done a little bit of research so far on the situation. Third world countries, it seems, are the biggest suppliers of organs. It makes sense when one considers that the "giver" can make as much as a 100,000 dollars on an organ sale. When one takes the foreign exchange rate into account, this is the kind of money that could give a poor person in a third world country financial security for life. In Iran, selling organs is legal. It is interesting to note that there is no wait list for kidney transplants in Iran. In the USA, the kidney transplant wait list is 105,205 people long. One can clearly see that legalizing the organ trade could save and enhance a lot of lives. I am excited to continue researching on this interesting topic!
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I really liked how you drew a connection between the legalization of organ sales and the controversy surrounding the idea of legalizing drugs such as marijuana, it is not a connection i would have thought to make. I had never really thought of a moral problem with making the sale of organs legal, but now that i think about it, the idea would be slightly unfair to the poor people unable to pay for the expensive organs. It sounds like an interesting topic, keep going at it!
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