[Avodah] Is there any issur here al pi halacha? - New York man pleads guilty to selling Israeli human organs

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 09:12:23PM -0400, Moshe Y. Gluck wrote:
: Yes. And this is different from every other illness, exactly how? Someone
: who can afford the Mayo Clinic will get better care than someone who comes
: to the emergency room at 3 AM. That's the way the world is. And every
: attempt to change that has failed.

The rich person who has money is like the one person in the desert who
has the canteen. As R' Aqiva says, "vechei achikha imakh" -- if it isn't
going to be "imakh", there is no obligation of "vechei".

This is why I focused the question not on the buyer, but on the broker.
The broker's position is more like a health care provider or the public
kupah, who have halakhos of triage.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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