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skywalker
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I am now able to sell my car, my house, my old books, and even my soiled panties if I need some spare cash. Whatever it is, I get to sell what is mine, if I so choose.
I find all this talk about the ‘evils’ of organ-trading to be confusing and hypocritical. First, our government telling us that we Singaporeans cannot sell our organs is confusing, Why? Because if my kidney is mine, then I should be able to do whatever I want to it, including selling it. But admittedly, trading in a kidney or a liver is more serious than selling off some old clothes, and that’s why there should be some regulations that govern such sales, just like how selling houses and cars here require it be done in some kind of legal framework. So I think the issue shouldn’t be rich, morally uptight, and most importantly, healthy people telling others that they cannot sell what is rightfully theirs to sell in the first place. The issue should be what legal framework the government is going to enact to ensure that all sellers/buyers of organs do so willingly for the right price and conditions.
I find this also a hypocritical issue. Will we be having this argument against organ trading in Singapore if one of our youngish Ministers (a current or future prime minister perhaps) is struck down with some organ failure? Will this minister go through body-draining dialysis 3 times a week, or wait endlessly in a queue for someone to die and hoping that you are next in line? If that really happened, I’m sure there’ll be a lightning justification about legalising organ trading, beacuse the government will say what a waste it would be for a talent like that to die before his/her potential has been achieved.
Or perhaps the minsiter in question will secretly fly to some nearby 3rd-world country and simply buy a new organ? They would be rich enough, and practical-minded enough to justify that their actions are done altruistically for the good of Singaporeans!
If we can now legally buy sex and body-poisoning stuff like cigarettes, there should be no reason why we can buy/sell organs from willing parties. Enough said.
I find all this talk about the ‘evils’ of organ-trading to be confusing and hypocritical. First, our government telling us that we Singaporeans cannot sell our organs is confusing, Why? Because if my kidney is mine, then I should be able to do whatever I want to it, including selling it. But admittedly, trading in a kidney or a liver is more serious than selling off some old clothes, and that’s why there should be some regulations that govern such sales, just like how selling houses and cars here require it be done in some kind of legal framework. So I think the issue shouldn’t be rich, morally uptight, and most importantly, healthy people telling others that they cannot sell what is rightfully theirs to sell in the first place. The issue should be what legal framework the government is going to enact to ensure that all sellers/buyers of organs do so willingly for the right price and conditions.
I find this also a hypocritical issue. Will we be having this argument against organ trading in Singapore if one of our youngish Ministers (a current or future prime minister perhaps) is struck down with some organ failure? Will this minister go through body-draining dialysis 3 times a week, or wait endlessly in a queue for someone to die and hoping that you are next in line? If that really happened, I’m sure there’ll be a lightning justification about legalising organ trading, beacuse the government will say what a waste it would be for a talent like that to die before his/her potential has been achieved.
Or perhaps the minsiter in question will secretly fly to some nearby 3rd-world country and simply buy a new organ? They would be rich enough, and practical-minded enough to justify that their actions are done altruistically for the good of Singaporeans!
If we can now legally buy sex and body-poisoning stuff like cigarettes, there should be no reason why we can buy/sell organs from willing parties. Enough said.