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Mojo Electro

(362 posts)
23. Exactly.
Sat Nov 9, 2013, 03:08 PM
Nov 2013

He literally laughed off the idea that rich people harvesting the organs of perfectly healthy poor people (sometimes for as low as 2,000) could be exploitation, or that a person in a poor country selling a kidney for a few thousand dollars to a rich westerner might not fully appreciate the gravity of that decision.

John Stossel has this peculiar mental twist. He has zero concept that anybody else's experience in life might be different than his own. In his mind, everybody is John Stossel. The rich Stossels should be free to harvest the organs of the lesser Stossels at will.

Everything is for sale. You like to eat don't ya?

I've never been so amused to see a video of someone being sapped in the face. (I admit to being amused at the Danzig one, but I like Danzig)

I'm not against the donation and transplant of organs, it saves lives. But the international trade and brokering of human body parts from people in poor countries. That's about as low-down and shady as it gets.

Mojo

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You know... Libertarian! Everything is for sale. longship Nov 2013 #1
Perhaps he might acquire a brain in such a market Zeke L Brimstone Nov 2013 #14
and a heart. (nt) Nine Nov 2013 #40
this idea has been KT2000 Nov 2013 #2
Stossel is just showing us all, once again... dchill Nov 2013 #3
It's no wonder that he is a propenent for organ sales-- TexasTowelie Nov 2013 #4
Ha Ha! Exactly. dchill Nov 2013 #45
The only organs which should be sold dipsydoodle Nov 2013 #5
Every Stossel thread has to have a link to this video. Frank Cannon Nov 2013 #6
John Stossel is a monkey ass punk. One of the few people on the planet to be sucker slapped twice. alphafemale Nov 2013 #18
Stossel could tell me that he thought my job was real... Frank Cannon Nov 2013 #20
Slap that porn stache....lol alphafemale Nov 2013 #26
Thank you for this. Mojo Electro Nov 2013 #24
One does have to wonder though why everyone but the donor gets to profit from the organ dsc Nov 2013 #7
Nobody is getting rich transplanting kidneys. Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #11
I am not saying the kidney should go to the highest bidder dsc Nov 2013 #15
How much should they get? Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #16
Two things dsc Nov 2013 #19
Yes, they are. There is a documentary on HBO about the topic. LOTS of people getting rich--just MADem Nov 2013 #30
Right. The person I was responding to wants donors to be paid Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #36
WTF? You have a reading comprehension problem in a big frigging way, pal. MADem Nov 2013 #38
I would like all of medicine to be socialized but it isn't dsc Nov 2013 #48
Hospitals get rich KT2000 Nov 2013 #47
Brokers get rich.Surgeons get rich. The only people not getting rich are the impoverished donors. MADem Nov 2013 #50
on the surface not a bad idea Enrique Nov 2013 #8
It is a stupid idiotic right wing dystopian libertarian idea. Warren Stupidity Nov 2013 #12
Americans travel abroad to get black market kidneys. MADem Nov 2013 #33
It ties into something called human dignity. duffyduff Nov 2013 #21
Because transplants Kermitt Gribble Nov 2013 #31
He's the whoriest of the media whores. I'm surprised he isn't on Fox in a green wig and fishnets. nt valerief Nov 2013 #9
let's start with his. Starry Messenger Nov 2013 #10
Here's a radical idea: how about higher wages and keeping your kidneys? JaneyVee Nov 2013 #13
^^This^^ 99Forever Nov 2013 #17
I can't believe what I am reading here about this! Whisp Nov 2013 #37
Who? You ask. 99Forever Nov 2013 #49
What are you, some kind of commie? Nine Nov 2013 #39
What pornstach face really wants is for the rich to be able to harvest organs at will. alphafemale Nov 2013 #22
Exactly. Mojo Electro Nov 2013 #23
Didn't he come to fame for exposing child labor of migrants? Dark Harvest...or Bitter Harvest? alphafemale Nov 2013 #25
Hey may well have been at one time. Mojo Electro Nov 2013 #27
Yes, he started out as a consumer and public advocate. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #34
Poor people having 2 kidneys...god's plan to make spares for his "Elected" HereSince1628 Nov 2013 #28
He probably saw that sad, disgraceful HBO documentary on the topic. MADem Nov 2013 #29
I advocate the trade of human mustaches. Arugula Latte Nov 2013 #32
Fine. I'll take both of his kidneys in trade for The Velveteen Ocelot Nov 2013 #35
He's a nut. Packerowner740 Nov 2013 #41
Has Stossel ever read ANY sort of science fiction? BanzaiBonnie Nov 2013 #42
of course he is nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #43
He's a real piece of work, isn't he? n/t leftyladyfrommo Nov 2013 #44
"What the actual fuck??" dchill Nov 2013 #46
Jesus Christ, I thought that shit was illegal gopiscrap Nov 2013 #51
Maybe he can trade one of his DJ13 Nov 2013 #52
I'll never forget his Katrina madness Vinnie From Indy Nov 2013 #53
Completely absurd, but absolutely typical. Mojo Electro Nov 2013 #55
I'd seriously consider selling a kidney CFLDem Nov 2013 #54
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