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Tim Lewens on Selling Organs (originally on Bioethics Bites)

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The Importance of Dignity in the Body

Health is very important so you need a properly functioning body if you want to do almost anything. Being healthy is a kind of precondition for more or less any reasonable life that you might wish to lead. There's also a thought that because we view being healthy as such a general purpose good, justice demands that everybody should be able to attain some basic state of health. The question is what that means then for incentivization and whether it needs to be consistent with altruism.

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