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Organ Trafficking: Ethical, Unethical, Or Both

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Organ trafficking…Ethical, Unethical, or Both

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigor ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?” (Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre) Organ Trafficking is an illegal activity that is happening in every country in the world. Organ Trafficking is defined as a wide spread organization crime where inner organs are illegally obtained and traded for transplant. The people who need a transplant pay a huge sum of money to obtain an organ for transplantation. So how about this very heated topic, is Organ Trafficking Unethical, Ethical, or is it both? The first thing to do is define each of these terms to understand what they really mean. Ethical is defined as “of or relating to moral principles”. Moral can be defined as “holding high principles for proper conduct.” Principles is defined as “a fundamental truth.” The last word to define is Unethical and it can be defined as “not morally correct.”(Merriam-Webster Dictionary) So how about the issue of organ …show more content…

While many lives have been saved due to the organs that were trafficked, organ trafficking is unethical because people who are poverty-stricken often have to sell their organs for money to make ends meet, people are kidnapped and forced into giving up their organs, and there are

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