China harvested organs from political prisoners, says tribunal
U.S. perspective, writing this.<p>I find this is an area where a &quot;moral decision&quot; is rather clear-cut.<p>And it highlights the... &quot;amorality&quot;, at best, of much of our relationship (whether speaking at the personal level or the state&#x2F;economy level) with contemporary China.<p>With our technology, we&#x27;ve enabled and empowered a political and economic structure that has not... &quot;sorted its shit&quot; as part of achieving same.  Simultaneously, we&#x27;ve hollowed out our own system -- the checks and balances, as well as raw job counts.<p>The U.S. is far from perfect.  Nonetheless, literally, physically &quot;ripping the life&quot; from one person, as a judgement, to benefit another.  That is some symbolism.  And a hallmark of what our own society has at least publicly considered to be &quot;dystopia&quot;.<p>----<p>P.S.  I responded to a reply with the following, but the child comment was deleted before I finished.  It was a more than fair point about what happens (over here), and the opportunity for response allowed me to better qualify the... &quot;us versus them&quot; -- or perhaps lack of a &quot;versus&quot; -- present in my original comment.  So, copy&#x2F;pasta of that reply of mine:<p>My &quot;the U.S. is far from perfect&quot; is an understatement -- one I worried about.  I agree with your point, and I find the behaviors you point out abhorrent.  Prison for profit; Econ. 101 teaches you what you&#x27;re going to get from that.<p>The U.S. has, however, been pretty aggressive in regulating organ transplants.  When they happen.  How limited, hopefully ethical, supplies are distributed.<p>Of course, over this hangs the spectre of economic disparity, corresponding health insurance disparity and health care access...<p>Yes, the U.S. is making plenty of life-altering, life-destroying decisions.  The &quot;death panels&quot; that actually exist but don&#x27;t make it into the political discussion (i.e. not the ginned up political phantoms).<p>And, some of those disparities seem to have been severely exacerbated, domestically -- progress actively reversed -- through off-shoring, outsourcing, and the winner-take-all, short-term reward.<p>As I grow more depressed writing this, well, at least we aren&#x27;t ripping out &quot;prisoners&#x27;&quot; organs -- yet.<p>(We go overseas and buy nice foreigners&#x27; kidneys, for that.)