The argument to have the ability to sell your organs is defiantly difficult as the thought of selling a piece of yourself to another human being even sounds immoral in context. Yet by Mario Morelli’s article “Commerce in Organs: A Kantian Critique” which used Kantian perspective to see both sides of people being for or against the idea of having the ability to sell organs allowed me to know where I stand. I believe it is our basic human rights to be able to do what we want with our bodies despite how others view it so if we choose to sell a piece of ourselves then we should have the right to. I also believe that people who oppose it just don’t fully understand how something like this instead of being harmful to our bodies is actually helpful.

You can’t just think of it as someone having the ability to buy an organ from someone but think as to why someone needs to sell an organ to someone. Imagine someone is making lots of money, has a steady job and is overall financially secured the odds that they are going to sell their organs is extremely unlikely as they have no reason. Now imagine someone who is taking care of a family on their own, working full time yet struggling to put food on the table and is seeking a future for their kids that they can’t afford. If they were given the opportunity to make a sacrifice for a large amount of money that could pay the rent, put food on the table and pay for their kids needs they are most likely to take it. Thats what this is really about this has nothing to do with the financially secured individuals but rather those seeking to become one.


Some may give the argument of claiming its self murder as Morelli stated “To deprive oneself of an integral part or organ (to mutilate oneself),for example, to give away or sell a tooth so that it can be
implanted in the jawbone of another person, or to submit oneself to castration in order to gain as easier living as a singer, and so on, belongs to partial self-murder.” If this is going to be labeled self-murder then it should also be given to many other things which are already legal to do to your body which could inflict self harm. Tattoos can create many cancer causing compounds in your body so is raising your chances of possibly getting cancer not self-murder? Even eating the wrong things can be identified as self-murder as it raises the chances of having possible health issues the identification of self-murder can be used in many different scenarios. Its the choices we make which decides which “Self-murder” we choose to inflict to ourselves as were aware anything could have a consequence.

Another argument made in Morelli’s article was how humanity is deprived by allowing the ability to sell organs which was made in the statement “Humanity has dignity, a special kind of value or worth, “exalted above all price” that “admits of no equivalent.”” This argument is invalid as it states dignity doesn’t have a price well if this is true you better tell the guy working at chic-fil-a who is wearing a chicken costume outside and throwing a sign around for minimum wage that he should quit because his dignity is priceless. People are told what they are worth all time its our choice that dictates if we agree with them.

In conclusion, people can argue that selling an organ is immoral,harmful or overall unconscionable but its because they are viewing from one perspective. When you think of people in different situations where maybe selling or buying an organ could possibly save someones life it allows a better understanding as to why this choice is needed. You have to allow someone to make their own decision in choosing whats best for them and their body. If you don’t let people make their own choices then it defies our natural given rights as human which is the real crime.