tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post2547711999151775086..comments2024-01-28T00:20:40.933-08:00Comments on Agoraphilia: Kidney Exchange for Central PlannersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-9551696596035837372007-06-05T15:20:00.000-07:002007-06-05T15:20:00.000-07:00Kidney Bean -- are you serious? Because your resp...Kidney Bean -- are you serious? Because your response is so silly as to be laughable.<BR/><BR/>No, I don't think my kidney is more valuable than a Picasso painting. Picasso paintings are worth <A HREF="http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/toptens/paintings/paintings.html" REL="nofollow">tens of millions of dollars</A>. I would happily sell a kidney for $10 million.<BR/><BR/>And it's not just me. Empirical fact demonstrates that many people will sell their kidneys for much less than that -- usually somewhere in the low thousands. <BR/><BR/>What if you sold both kidneys? Wait, I thought you just said you thought even one kidney was worth more than a Picasso painting! Therefore, nobody will ever offer you enough to gain your consent. But let's say they do. Then you should have more than enough money to pay for your dialysis and/or funeral. After a while, maybe you'll figure out your dumb mistake and someone will sell <EM>you</EM> a kidney. If not, well, I guess that is Darwinism at work.Glen Whitmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01425907466575991113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3829599.post-46319336893205481892007-06-05T15:00:00.000-07:002007-06-05T15:00:00.000-07:00Wouldn't you agree that YOUR kidney is more valuab...Wouldn't you agree that YOUR kidney is more valuable than a Picasso painting? I think your valuation is correct. I doubt nature provided us with 2 kidneys so that we could sell one for a tidy profit. If that were the case then nature would have given us at least three kidneys so we'd have more than one to sell. I don't think capitalist considerations are involved in Darwinian evolution, maybe in a human misapplication call Social Darwinism. <BR/><BR/>What if I want to sell both my kidneys? Then, I could live on a dialysis machine for a while until all my other vital organs fail, and I die. I know that the quality and lenghth of my life will be shortened greatly. Personally, I'd like the proceeds of my sale to go to the Institute for Humane Studies to support further ethical studies on the issue. My dead body can be sent whereever. <BR/><BR/>Suicide is so senseless, but not necessarily so, if the IHS is well funded.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com