1) you have handed the government the ability to decide, at any point, to kill anyone they consider undesirable, provided they can find five compatible transplant recipients; this is a massive increase in their power, and a big step towards totalitarian society.
2) You are discouraging people from undergoing genetic screening
3) you are discouraging people from living healthily. If you are unhealthy, your organs are of less use to the government, and hence you are more likely to survive.
4) you are encouraging people to go off the grid; as people who are off the grid are less likely to be found for the purposes of harvesting.
Yes, these logical reasons are not directly the reason people are creeped out; but were you to find a less harmful scenario, you would also likely find the scenario less creepy.
For instance, most people would find it less creepy if the harvesting was limited only to those who are already in prison, on long (20 year+) sentences; and it also seems that that policy would have less indirect harms.
For instance, most people would find it less creepy if the harvesting was limited only to those who are already in prison, on long (20 year+) sentences; and it also seems that that policy would have less indirect harms.
There’s an incentive here to raise frequency and length of prison sentences, though. I think I actually saw a “death sentence for repeated jaywalking” scenario in some TV show, and IIRC it was actual caused by some medically-better-for-everyone “reason”, and it was pretty creepy.
It would have quite a few bad knockon effects:
1) you have handed the government the ability to decide, at any point, to kill anyone they consider undesirable, provided they can find five compatible transplant recipients; this is a massive increase in their power, and a big step towards totalitarian society.
2) You are discouraging people from undergoing genetic screening
3) you are discouraging people from living healthily. If you are unhealthy, your organs are of less use to the government, and hence you are more likely to survive.
4) you are encouraging people to go off the grid; as people who are off the grid are less likely to be found for the purposes of harvesting.
Yes, these logical reasons are not directly the reason people are creeped out; but were you to find a less harmful scenario, you would also likely find the scenario less creepy.
For instance, most people would find it less creepy if the harvesting was limited only to those who are already in prison, on long (20 year+) sentences; and it also seems that that policy would have less indirect harms.
There’s an incentive here to raise frequency and length of prison sentences, though. I think I actually saw a “death sentence for repeated jaywalking” scenario in some TV show, and IIRC it was actual caused by some medically-better-for-everyone “reason”, and it was pretty creepy.