Woman suggests that indebted students sell organs to wipe out student debt, isn't a parody

[witherwings]

Debt-hit students urged to sell their kidneys

STUDENTS should be able to sell their kidneys for tens of thousands of pounds to pay off university debts, according to a Scots academic.

Sue Rabbitt Roff believes making it legal to sell the body part would boost the number of organs available to save lives and help students struggling with money.

Comments

[shadowpiranha]

Well you know I always thought anyone needs a degree more than both functioning kidneys, in the long run. Of course. Obviously. Duh! I mean why do we have two if not to sell one of them to improve our lives and education? It's not like it's a right that assists us or anything.

[shadowpiranha]

I misused the word, then. But still. That's not a very good solution to the students' financial problems, is it? I mean seriously if we're born with two kidneys something tells me we probably shouldn't go around selling them. Bottom line, it was a stupid and insensitive comment to make!

[shadowpiranha]

Yeah I guess it was the way things were presented. Plus I wish people didn't need to do it at all, honestly.

[witherwings]

As is mentioned the article, it's because it ends up being more like extortion. Only people who really need the cash will donate because they may be in a position where they don't feel they have a choice. No one should be entering in to major surgery with that outlook

[salienne]

...I'm going to regret engaging, but you realize that not every decision exists in a vacuum and that choices made due to economic coercion, choices that are often between bad and awful and would probably not be made otherwise, are not actually perfectly fine and dandy just because they're choices, right? The context matters, and the solution isn't to enable the coercion. It's to provide better choices.

[salienne]

Such as creating a decent social safety net, ensuring a livable minimum wage, subsidizing higher education, revamping financial aid so that it actually acknowledges how much money one reasonably has to shell out on education, providing loans with reasonable interest rates, and so on. You know, making poverty something other than a sentence to future poverty unless one happens to be really damn lucky. Actually making bootstraps available while ensuring some a baseline decent standard living for all.

Thousands vs. starving is probably the most useless strawman I've seen in a while, though, so congrats.

[stevie_jane]

Great comment.

[wrestlingdog]

Well said.

[teacup_werewolf]

MTE :3

[aviv]

+1

[c_yo_yus]

ALL THOSE IDEAS SOUND LIKE SOCIALIST WIZARDRY.

PS- It actually sounded perfect. Run for office.

[salienne]

ngl, if someone ran for office based on a platform centered on actually ensuring a decent standard of living and equal opportunity for all, I would vote for them in a heartbeat.

(Unfortunately they'd never get elected because soshiulizm, but a girl can dream.)

[celtic_thistle]

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