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!

Doing Work On Proposing

I have made great progress today. I have narrowed my inquiry contract topic down to two topics: "The morality of beauty pageants" or "The legalization of organ trade". I read a conversation on a website recently about whether beauty pageants are inherently positive or negative. A couple of the participants in various pageants gave relatively scripted answers about pageants being about confidence, being healthy, meeting new people, helping charities, and true beauty. I found it interesting that they claimed it's not about how one's looks but the confidence one shows. I find it genuinely interesting that participants and their defenders think that beauty pageants are not about the best looking person. I have a hard time believing that they really believe this. The other idea was given to me by my dad. It is no secret that there is fairly large black market for organs. Like the drug legalization issue, the major controversy is whether to legalize it so that the black market diminishes or to keep it illegal for "ethical" reasons.