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Summary Of Organ Donation Rates By Francis Fukuyama

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There are over 118,000 people on the organ transplant waiting like in the United States, however, the average organ donor rate is 26 per million people in the population ("Organ Donation Rates: How the US Stacks Up"), which means that there are more people on the waiting list for the organs. Who will be the person on the top of the wait list becomes a contradiction problem depend on both religion conflict and social status issues. This concept can be seen in both Human Dignity, by Francis Fukuyama and Ethics and the New Genetics by Dalai Lama. In Human Dignity, Fukuyama addresses the idea that Factor X connects people to live in an equality life and every person has its own unique personality. Organ donation plays a role towards both bioethics …show more content…

People’s social status will influence the chance of receiving the organs. From the article Human Dignity, Fukuyama addresses Factor X as a component that influences people by bringing the idea of equality for people who share with different cultural background. “Skin color, looks, social class and wealth, gender, cultural background, and even one’s natural talents are all accidents of birth relegated to the class of nonessential characteristics” (Fukuyama, 2010, p.186). People are different because of its race and religion they believe in, however, as a human, the equality is a term that all people are looking for. The truth is, the real equality does not exist, people have a compass in their heart and the compass will judge people based on their races. The organ donations is one of the example shows the inequality in the bioethics. Who …show more content…

When will I receiving the match? These types of question are patients most concern, every patient who wants an organ is desperate to become the top of the waiting list, however, who decide which patient receive the organ faces the problem is to be fair. There is an organization in the United States is called United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) manages for the people who need organs, and they based on their rules: children under circumstances will receive special allowance, the organization will not judge people based on their income, social status, race or ethnic background. ("Understanding the Organ Transplant Waiting List."). However, the truth is, there are no absolute fair for people to receive organs. For example, if there is a patient is the president of the United States, and the other patient is a drug addicted; they both need a kidney, which person will become the top of the waiting list? There is no doubt the president will, because his social value and status are much higher than the patient with drug addicted. Even though most of cases, the organ donations are fair, however, based on people’s social status, there are no absolute

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