So, clearly, it is not the transfer of the organ that outrages us – we do not think that the donor is misinformed about the value of a kidney or is being fooled into parting with it. Nor, I think, do we have concerns about the scruples of the person selling the organ – after all, they are parting irreversibly with something that is dear to them for a price that few of us would accept.
那么贩卖人体器官又该怎么看呢？这是桑德尔所担心的又一件事。卖肾或者卖肺听起来似乎总有那么一丝不对劲。但对于捐献肾脏给年轻小孩的陌生人，我们总要赞扬他的善良。因此，显然，是器官的交易激怒了我们——我们并不会去想捐献者被误导了肾脏的价值，或是受骗上当才接受取肾的。而我认为，我们也不会去想出售器官者所经历的犹豫——毕竟他们所经历的是与宝贵之物的不可逆的分离，而他们所获得的代价是很少有人愿意能够的。