Sell your kidney for $47k...

richlevy · 05-07-2008, 06:48 PM

There was a sci-fi story about a prison where, instead or prison labor, prisoners would get benefits by donating organs. The author described a number of 'volunteers' missing eyes, kidneys, etc.

People are already preyed on for their paychecks and possessions. If we turn every human being into a walking warehouse of marketable organs, I can see a whole industry opening up. Imagine credit card contracts where the company can foreclose on a kidney if the borrower defaults. Losing an arm and a leg could become literal.

05-07-2008, 06:48 PM	#1
richlevy King Of Wishful Thinking Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Philadelphia Suburbs Posts: 6,669	There was a sci-fi story about a prison where, instead or prison labor, prisoners would get benefits by donating organs. The author described a number of 'volunteers' missing eyes, kidneys, etc. People are already preyed on for their paychecks and possessions. If we turn every human being into a walking warehouse of marketable organs, I can see a whole industry opening up. Imagine credit card contracts where the company can foreclose on a kidney if the borrower defaults. Losing an arm and a leg could become literal. __________________ Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE! I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama

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