Too many analogies, what specific harms do you think would result from people being able to sell their organs and some regulated price? If there is informed consent, then the monetary benefit should exceed the health cost.
I think that if the regulated price was either a ceiling that is low enough, or a floor which is high enough (or both, as in the case for wages), then harms would not result at all. A law which said “all organ selling must be either a free donation, or accompanied by a payment of at least $2 million” would probably be okay.
But that is a very noncentral description of organ selling. The majority of advocates of organ selling don’t want such limits on it.
Too many analogies, what specific harms do you think would result from people being able to sell their organs and some regulated price? If there is informed consent, then the monetary benefit should exceed the health cost.
I think that if the regulated price was either a ceiling that is low enough, or a floor which is high enough (or both, as in the case for wages), then harms would not result at all. A law which said “all organ selling must be either a free donation, or accompanied by a payment of at least $2 million” would probably be okay.
But that is a very noncentral description of organ selling. The majority of advocates of organ selling don’t want such limits on it.