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The best argument against kidney sales fails
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- Published on: 18 May 2017
- Published on: 18 May 2017The best argument against the organ market still awaits refutationShow More
Critics of a regulated market in organs have correctly focussed on its inability to protect the vendor from coercion and exploitation. However, they have consistently failed to realise that coercion and exploitation are not immanent in this market. Rather, they are immanent in the need to even consider selling ones organs (free people do not engage in such considerations). In other words, the critics have failed to ackno...
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