2006-07-09 13:12:20 · 9 answers · asked by bj 1 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
The question is not whether or not the selling of body parts is legal, it is if it is done by professionals for legitimate uses and if the surviving family has given complete consent. However, it becomes an issue when the respect for the body itself is compromised. There is no doubt that human body parts are medical commodities and are in great demand; however, there is also a large black market demand for body parts. This leads to desecration issues and illegally stealing body parts without the deceased's or the surviving family's consent.
2006-07-09 13:18:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two problems.
The first is the commodification of people, by creating a market for their parts.
The second is the disparate impact between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless. In the hands of a corrupt government, or even ambitious institutions in a more open government, people with less resources over time will be pressured that the social norm is to allow themselves to "part" with their parts and that the elite deserves the benefits of this arrangement. Meanwhile, the more powerless have no means of accessing such organs if they have the need.
The problems with "organ trade" are already being felt in less developed parts of the globe. When I was in the Philippines a few years ago there was an uproar at the organ harvesters who came to some of the islands and offered $300 for everyone's kidney(s?). People started to used their kidneys as collateral for loans and such. Then stories of corneas and liver tissue and involuntary harvesting began to circulate. I have no doubt some of this happened, whether it was rampant or a just few instances-who knows.
Money is not always the best way to distribute scarce resources. Especially when most of us with money are that way by the good fortune of being born in a for the most part great country like the USA.
2006-07-09 22:31:35 · answer #2 · answered by bizsmithy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm, how the body parts are attained. Do you really want people killing others just for their body parts? It's like a horror movie waiting to happen if that was legal.
2006-07-09 20:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's a really... disturbing... question.
If you legalize the sale of body parts, people could be abducted and we'd have a "chop-shop" atmosphere, except with human body parts instead of car parts.
Horrifying...
2006-07-09 20:19:32 · answer #4 · answered by Luann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there will be a market for the murder of people simply for parts.
IE. I show up at a sleezie doctor office and sell my neighbor for $100,000 and the doc then contacts the transplant organization and sells them the body for $150,000. Now the neighbor wouldn't have died on his own for say...another 10 years.
2006-07-09 20:18:51 · answer #5 · answered by billybetters2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People might get pressured into doing it.
The rich take advantage of poor people being in need for money.
Health risks for the involved.
Possible body farming in 3rd world countries.
And I guess there is a lot more to it
2006-07-09 21:41:11 · answer #6 · answered by ganja_claus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like others have said, it would encourage murder, and besides, where would they sell them? The supermarket?
Too many weirdos would do too many weird things with the parts. It would be one sick world. More than it already is. More than you seem to be for asking the question.
2006-07-09 20:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by L1ngg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you dont want people to start having "accidents" in case a certain part was needed. also it feels like "harvesting" parts for profit
2006-07-09 20:16:45 · answer #8 · answered by cheryl w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably discouraging murders with the intent of harvesting parts?
2006-07-09 20:15:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋