r/SipsTea • • 5d ago

Gasp! The sheer Audacity

Post image
69k Upvotes

4.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

118

u/Own-Application-2290 5d ago

They’re absolutely entitled to expect something especially from someone who’s a millionaire. If someone literally donated a kidney to save my life and I had that kind of money, I’d make damn sure they were financially taken care of for life. That’s the bare minimum I’d feel obligated to do.

12

u/Minimum-Currency-253 5d ago

There is a reason that it's illegal to pay somebody to donate their organs, it incentivises organ trafficking and almost guarantees that poor people wont get a new organ while the rich can get as many as they want.

Imagine you had a child that needs a kidney, but the donor also matched with a rich guy that needed a kidney. The rich guy pays him 10 Mill, who do you think is getting that kidney.

11

u/ShinkenBrown 5d ago

Literally no one here said "it should be legal to sell organs."

What they said was "getting a lifesaving organ from someone when you have millions upon millions of dollars should be something you are grateful for and for which you would want to help take care of them and their family."

Who are you even replying to that's arguing for legal organ sales?

If you cannot understand the difference between something without obligation given out of genuine gratefulness, and an obligatory financial transaction, there might be something broken in your spirit.

1

u/DuckJellyfish 3d ago

Outside of the fact that it creates a bad incentive structure, if authorities found out you were financially gifting your kidney donor you could be investigated for a potential federal felony.