Argumentative Essay On Organ Market
Noah Pierce
English 12 - Shettles
Argumentative Research Paper
19 March 2015
Organ Market
The number of people who die each year due to a shortage of organs is increasing by eight percent each year. However there is an easy fix to this problem which would be a legal market for human organs. While many believe it is okay to sell human organs, others feel that selling organs is wrong because it is immoral. Selling organs should be legalized to save and improve lives. In this essay both sides of the argument will be presented and then you can decide how you feel on this situation.
First things first is effectiveness despite decades and decades of public education on the importance and virtues of organ donating the waiting list …show more content…
First is effectiveness one major thing we worry about now is the quality of the organs.A report prepared by the national non-profit group Donate Life America recently revealed a 10 percent increase in donor designations. Due to people being paid for their organs many worry it would attract the wrong donors like a druggie willing to sell anything just to get his fix. Also if it is not broke don't fix it the current system we have is working maybe not at the highest percentage but who is to say that the new program would be better when in turn it could turn out to be much worse than the current system. Second is morality this organ selling system would be contrary to human dignity because people who have financial problems would be more likely to sell their organs because they have to for money not because they want to. It also makes humans like animals with no sense of caring for one another when we are willing to put someone elses life at risk. Are we prepared to risk others lives, dignity, and pride in order to improve our own life? Third is economics. Who will be paying for it? The everyday american who works hard would have to pay for the cost of all the surgeries with the taxes that they pay under the new organ system they are trying to create. Many of these americans struggle just to get buy and with a new system like this it would need more funding which means more taxes added on to what is already being withheld from their checks that they desperately
English 12 - Shettles
Argumentative Research Paper
19 March 2015
Organ Market
The number of people who die each year due to a shortage of organs is increasing by eight percent each year. However there is an easy fix to this problem which would be a legal market for human organs. While many believe it is okay to sell human organs, others feel that selling organs is wrong because it is immoral. Selling organs should be legalized to save and improve lives. In this essay both sides of the argument will be presented and then you can decide how you feel on this situation.
First things first is effectiveness despite decades and decades of public education on the importance and virtues of organ donating the waiting list …show more content…
First is effectiveness one major thing we worry about now is the quality of the organs.A report prepared by the national non-profit group Donate Life America recently revealed a 10 percent increase in donor designations. Due to people being paid for their organs many worry it would attract the wrong donors like a druggie willing to sell anything just to get his fix. Also if it is not broke don't fix it the current system we have is working maybe not at the highest percentage but who is to say that the new program would be better when in turn it could turn out to be much worse than the current system. Second is morality this organ selling system would be contrary to human dignity because people who have financial problems would be more likely to sell their organs because they have to for money not because they want to. It also makes humans like animals with no sense of caring for one another when we are willing to put someone elses life at risk. Are we prepared to risk others lives, dignity, and pride in order to improve our own life? Third is economics. Who will be paying for it? The everyday american who works hard would have to pay for the cost of all the surgeries with the taxes that they pay under the new organ system they are trying to create. Many of these americans struggle just to get buy and with a new system like this it would need more funding which means more taxes added on to what is already being withheld from their checks that they desperately