HOLY COW. It's true. Kidney theft.

[crash_davis]

is this an instance of urban legend becoming true. or has this urban legend been true all this time and we only thunk it to be legend.

KIDNEYS stolen!



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[alden]

Holy crap. Even if it wasn't true before the urban legend, the idea has been circulated widely enough.

Man, that was disturbing.

 

[Kwisatz]

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[hornarama]

Ironically, our very own laws against the selling of organs are probably largely responsible for creating this market. If we allowed the sale of organs, poor people from around the world could sell their organs directly, and the black market would probably mostly dry up.

If people are killed for their wallets with a few bucks in them, it is no surprise that people would be robbed of organs worth thousands of dollars. If this was all legalized and above board, you could not sell black market organs (not registered as legitiametly acquired) and they would have no extraordinary value (because there would be plenty of organs for sale).

 

[Math Mudrat]

Should have invested in a Kidney Blocker 2000

 

[SomeMildLanguage]

I agree that we ought to have a well-regulated open market for human organs, however grisly it is to think about such a thing.

 

[UTinBigD]

I am wondering why did they bother to patch them back up and not take both kidneys? I mean, if the doctor performing this is enough of a butcher to participate in stealing organs, is there some small shred of ethics that they stopped short of that?

I think that opening up the market for selling one's organs might not be a good thing. I would think a very small percentage of donor would actually comprehend the risks and lifestyle changes needed to function afterwards. Most would be poor saps who get a check for $15K for a kidney, then spend half of on booze that causes more health problems due to only one kidney.

We have a quasi-regulated adoption industry and kidnapping babies-for-sale seems to be happing in a lot of countries trying to meet the demand in the US. I can see a similar situation happening.