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Two arguments against paying for kidneys

There are broadly two objections to paying for kidneys: first, that buying or selling body parts is simply wrong because it commoditizes people; second, the more nuanced concern that only poor people would sell and would be coerced into it, turning an altruistic life-saving act into something exploitative that corrupts the medical profession.

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Speaker

Alvin Roth

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One is it's simply wrong. You shouldn't be able to sell body parts... The other, more nuanced argument is only poor people are gonna want to sell their kidneys and they're gonna be coerced to do this terrible thing

Source

353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested MarketsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 12:30:11 AM

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