Comments on: Should governments let people trade kidneys? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/should-governments-let-people-trade.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gasmanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/11/should-governments-let-people-trade.html#comment-68889 Gasman Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/11/should-governments-let-people-trade-kidneys.html#comment-68889 Taking organs to the grave is just plain stupid. Donating organs from the deceased is not altruistic. It is a form of social bargain. I sign my drivers license to offer something of value to others at a time when it has no value to me, hoping that I can convince others to do the same; they offer organs usless to them (deceased) at a time when I might require them to stay alive.<br/><br/>Nothing altruistic about that at all; merely a social bargain. Problem is there are a lot of freeloaders on the system, happy to take an organ, but unwilling to give upon death. Hence the development of closed organ sharing networks where organs are shared only among the participants who have affirmatively agreed to the social bargain Taking organs to the grave is just plain stupid. Donating organs from the deceased is not altruistic. It is a form of social bargain. I sign my drivers license to offer something of value to others at a time when it has no value to me, hoping that I can convince others to do the same; they offer organs usless to them (deceased) at a time when I might require them to stay alive.

Nothing altruistic about that at all; merely a social bargain. Problem is there are a lot of freeloaders on the system, happy to take an organ, but unwilling to give upon death. Hence the development of closed organ sharing networks where organs are shared only among the participants who have affirmatively agreed to the social bargain

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