Cheating the Concept of Cheating Journal

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The other principal objection relates to the fact that the poor would have much greater incentive to sell their organs while the rich would benefit more from the plan. This objection also must compare other areas of modern life where that is (already) no less true. Coal miners, loggers, and deep sea fishing are all exceptionally dangerous occupations normally held by those who have few other vocational opportunities and their labor provides power, lumbar, and food for those who are wealthier.

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JOURNAL ENTRY 11: DEFINITION:

Examine the term cheating as it relates to one of the following as it relates to family, career or personal needs (Not academic)

DEFINE: Free write an extended definition of cheating based on the above. (2 paragraphs, 5 sentences each)

JOURNAL ENTRY 12: ARGUMENT

Review the following 2 essays. Respond to the view points using either compare/contrast or the classified/divide pattern of development. (Open list).

HO MUCH IS THAT KIDNEY in the WINDOW?

BRUCE GOTTLIEB

Eight years ago, an article appeared in an obscure Israeli medical journal, Medicine and Law, arguing that American citizens should be permitted to sell their kidneys. This would require changing federal law, which since 1984 has made selling any organ, even one's own a felony punishable by up to five years in jail. The author of the article was a Michigan pathologist named Jack Kevorkian.

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Kevorkian's argument was that the current system of accepting kidneys only from dead patients and good Samaritan donors provides too few kidneys. While this was true even then, the situation is worse today. As of April 30, there were 44,989 people on the waiting list for a kidney transplant. About 2,300 of them will die this year while waiting. If kidney sales were permitted, Kevorkian argued, these lives would almost certainly be saved.

He may be right, in recent years, economists and economically minded lawyers at the University of Chicago and Yale Law School have made similar arguments. The idea was endorsed two years ago in the pages of the Lancet by a group of prominent transplant surgeons from Harvard Medical School and Hospitals in Canada and England. Of course, legalizing kidneys sales remains a fringe view, both within the medical profession and outside it. But that needs to change.

There are several familiar arguments against legalizing kidney sales, beginning with the idea that giving up a kidney is too dangerous for the donor. but, popular though this argument.....

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