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comment by snoodog
snoodog  ·  2899 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 18, 2016

I'm sure it makes me a bad person gut generally no. A person that I have no connection to benefiting... I guess I care not if they do or dont and maybe even prefer dont. Grand scheme of things (Timeline -> 100+ years) I cant say one outcome is better than the other. People have to ability to do both great and horrible things and they two seem to balance each-other out pretty evenly.

Something about the way I was raised and the challenges Ive faced growing up has developed in me a very strong affinity for my "in-group" but little care for the "out-group". So the idea that my organs could benefit a bunch of people I've never met (and I dont just mean the people actually needing the transplant, I also mean the intermediaries that have positioned themselves to profit off my parts) appeals little to me.

I feel the same way about the organ donor process as I have felt about cabbies and commercial fishing license owners. There are bunch of people that colluded with government to unfairly force out and limit competition so that could carve out a very profitable niche for them and their kin while providing no or minimal value and by enabling them it ensures that they get a larger piece of the limited resource pie and my "in-group" who doesn't enjoy these carve outs gets a smaller piece.