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

[jasonbeast]

What a fucking brilliant idea! And here I thought we were living in dire economic times! This would just open up so many thrilling possibilities! Sign me up!

Mod note.

[rex_dart]

Your trolling is really... what's the word? Oh yeah. Boring.

Goodbye.

Re: Mod note.

[ladypolitik]

Re: Mod note.

[bmh4d0k3n]

OMGLOL where is that from??

[daniilm]

Why not back every unsecured credit with an organ extraction clause?! This will make those loans much more secure, lower bank's losses in default and lower interest rates = more consumer spending power!
Just think about it. Visa line of credit, backed by left kidney, with low-low APR.

[witherwings]

NGL, I laughed. Then I felt depressed because I have a feeling that this could be the wave of the future.

[daniilm]

Well, with the rate at which student loans grow in the US, and the strength of big bank lobby, which is unlikely to allow making student loans defaultable once more, something similar is likely to happen when banks find out that a lot of new graduates are either fleeing the country, or working for cash.

[erunamiryene]

... OMG. You're giving them ideas. DON'T DO THAT.

(I picture some Snidely-Whiplash-mustachioed, suited banker rolling through here and going HOT DAMN THERE'S MY TICKET TO PROMOTION *scribble scribble scribble* HEY BOSSMAN LOOK AT THIS IDEA I HAD.)

[layweed]

What a FANASTIC IDEA!

[fishphile]

*eyebrow raise* Really now?

However, Mrs Roff said she would not sell one of her kidneys. "I don't feel the need or the pressure for money. I'm a middle-class person and I'm not in that situation. But we shouldn't legislate for other people.

That's exactly what I expected.

She has two grown-up daughters and said she would support them selling a kidney "for the right reasons", but added she would probably just give them money so they did not have to.

I see.

[luminescnece]

How wonderful to know that she wouldn't want that for her children. Obviously poor people must not love their children enough to just HAVE money to give them.

[romp]

if they wanted money, they'd go to college and get jobs!

[chaeri]

That's what I don't get it. If it isn't something you would want for yourself or someone you care about it then don't put other people in the position to have to do it themselves . Why is this a difficult concept?