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६०वर्षात जग केवढ उलट पालट झाल पहा (श्री. अशोक माहिमकरांची माफी मागत...)
Ferdinand Mount, ‘When everything’s for sale’, The Times
Literary Supplemen, July 2012:
"...In truth, some cases really are hard
cases. Take, for example, the classic modern dilemma of kidneys for sale.
Sandel says that the peasant may be unfairly coerced to sell his kidney or his
cornea to feed his starving family. A market in such organs promotes “a
degrading, objectifying view of the human person as a collection of spare parts”.
Such a market, it would seem, must fall foul of both his fairness and his
corruption objections. And this is in fact the prevailing official view across
the world. Governments almost everywhere forbid the sale of kidneys for
transplant. Nevertheless, the Guardian reported on its front page recently (May
28, 2012) that 10,000 illegally purchased kidneys are now transplanted
somewhere in the world every hour. The black market in China, India and
Pakistan effortlessly outwits the ban..."