Difference between revisions of "A Regulated Kidney Market Designed To Minimize Social Harms"
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{{DES | des = Libertarians endorse unregulated organ markets, but that would bring many social harms. Single buyer markets where the payments go to the donor's choice of charity might solve most of the problems. | show=}} | {{DES | des = Libertarians endorse unregulated organ markets, but that would bring many social harms. Single buyer markets where the payments go to the donor's choice of charity might solve most of the problems. | show=}} | ||
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| + | Kidney markets are problematic for a number of reasons. This is a short and simple attempt to design a solution. | ||
== The Problems == | == The Problems == | ||
* Bodily integrity is an important value, including retaining all one's organs. | * Bodily integrity is an important value, including retaining all one's organs. | ||
| − | * Creating an organ market might work like payday loans, as a way of transferring even more resources from the poor to the wealthy. We might | + | * Creating an organ market might work like payday loans, as a way of transferring even more resources from the poor to the wealthy. We might be creating conditions so that the same poverty traps that force people into payday loan interest payments force them into organ donation as well. |
* Creating a market for organs commodifies them, rendering them subject to ordinary laws in the market, such as liens, repossession, bankruptcy, alimony, taxation, etc. | * Creating a market for organs commodifies them, rendering them subject to ordinary laws in the market, such as liens, repossession, bankruptcy, alimony, taxation, etc. | ||
* Commodified organs imperil the poor, who now have an increased need to protect their organs from legal judgements, theft, etc. | * Commodified organs imperil the poor, who now have an increased need to protect their organs from legal judgements, theft, etc. | ||
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* The poor are not endangered by risks of organ theft, allowing greater medical transparency. | * The poor are not endangered by risks of organ theft, allowing greater medical transparency. | ||
* Black markets are minimized. | * Black markets are minimized. | ||
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