Read The Wall Street Journal article, Why You Should Be Able to Sell Your Kidney by James Mackintosh, November 24, 2023, which can be found in the Week 2 content module .

Javier Milei won the Argentine presidency with a promise to rip up the state, dynamite the central bank and ditch the peso for the dollar. All are controversial, but none so controversial as his belief that there should be a legal market in human organs. The yuck factor led him to play down his views as the election neared, but trading in organs is one of the most interesting libertarian ideasand regarded with horror by critics, who see it as the purest form of dystopian capitalism. There are two compelling reasons to allow people to sell their organs, while the counterarguments tend to overlook the basic question of economics: What is the alternative? We shouldnt expect to be trading kidney futures in Chicago any time soon, but the cases for and against putting a price on kidneys go to the heart of the debate about capitalism.

This article provides us with an opportunity to analyze and discuss the ethical issues associated with the market for human organs.

Please post your thoughts. Questions to consider and discuss:

What issues raised in the article do you kind to be the most ethically-troubling? Why?

Can you find an ethical reason for it to be legal to see ones organs, such as a kidney or an eye?

Can you find an ethical reason for it to be legal to see ones organs, such as a kidney or an eye?