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That's the first step on a bad road.

Step 1: Reward volunteer donors with cash, healthcare

Step 2: Reward 'volunteer' donors with welfare, housing

Step 3: Reward 'volunteer' donors with reduced criminal penalties

Step 4: Reward 'volunteer' donors with reduced prison sentences

Step 5: Make donation a compulsory sentencing option

Step 6: Compel criminals to donate both kidneys

Now you're China.



Step 1: Trim your fingernails

Step 6: Chop your arms off


Ha! Fun game. We can make up junk and make anything look bad! How about:

1: go to church

2: compel others to go to church

3: lock the doors and burn the place down


What you're missing is that China is already executing prisoners in order to harvest their organs. This isn't hypothetical. So anyone who wants to advocate for selling human organs for transplant need to address how to avoid abuse of powerless victims who may be compelled to donate.


Speculative? They're using kidneys from prisoners, once they are executed. To turn around cause and effect is disingenuous. You can guess that that may be happening; to state it as fact is quite a stretch.




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