Organ Trade
Cannibalization!
“Namaste”, According to Yoga guru means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace.” And when that inner space is violated by greed of the individuals who without any remorse disturb the harmony inside by remorselessly removing the parts like kidney, which constitute the inner being, one is found to feel repugnant. However, equally repugnant is the fact when the inner spirituality is tampered by the dictates of the demand-supply curves, and force us to see human organs as a piece of resource that cannot be allowed to go waste. These are exactly the problems which a Harvard Economist Alvin Roth discusses in his paper, Repugnance as a Constraint on Markets. “Markets by their very nature are indiscriminate, promiscuous and inclined to reduce everything - including human beings, their labor and even their reproductive capacity - to the status of commodities.” Says George Soros, the world-class billionaire financier.
The big question which the economist must begin to ask is, can capitalism be allowed to slump to such levels of moral bankruptcy, that the poverty stricken individuals should sustain the lives of the rich by selling their body parts. It would indeed be an ultimate defeat of the markets, if any attempt is made to regulate (a euphemism for legalize) organ transplants so that, Paul can keeping paying Peter through marketisation of his body parts.
The big question which the economist must begin to ask is, can capitalism be allowed to slump to such levels of moral bankruptcy, that the poverty stricken individuals should sustain the lives of the rich by selling their body parts. It would indeed be an ultimate defeat of the markets, if any attempt is made to regulate (a euphemism for legalize) organ transplants so that, Paul can keeping paying Peter through marketisation of his body parts.
