[Avodah] Murder?

[Harry Maryles]

--- On Wed, 11/17/10, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:

> A question is also (and this is more halachically significant) whether
more lives are risked overall if one lets individual recipients to
buy their way to the head of the line. That goes beyond the ethics of
penalizing someone too much for their poverty.
 
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Another ethical/halakhic question. Let us say a billionaire needs a kidney to save his life. He's been given days to live withpout a transplant. No compatible donor has yet been found... and there are a few people in similar situations that are in line ahead of him to get one from UNOS should it become available. 
 
What are the ethics of this billionaire offering a million dollars to anyone with a compatible kindey to donate it directly to him? There are people who might not otehrwise be willing to donate a kidney that will now trip all over themselvs at a chance to 'sell' their 'spare' kidney for a million dollars.
 
HM

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