Thanks for the welcome! I'm not trying to argue in bad faith. I think this scheme would help minorities and the poor disproportionately, so I'm hopeful I can convince leftists that despite the dollar signs involved this is actually a very good plan.
It seems to me that the monetary blood donation reward is poorly thought out and has a lot of problems that this kidney-selling system is trying to sidestep. In particular, I think this kidney system isn't going to encourage poor people to donate their kidneys at all -- it will only give a monetary reward to people who pay lots of taxes (the middle class+).
I have a low opinion of NYT also. I was onboard with (carefully) monetarily rewarding kidney donations already.
Yes. I'm definitely interested in learning more about leftism. I would identify as 50% liberal, 45% leftist, maybe 5% crazy libertarian.
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Thanks for the welcome! I'm not trying to argue in bad faith. I think this scheme would help minorities and the poor disproportionately, so I'm hopeful I can convince leftists that despite the dollar signs involved this is actually a very good plan.
It seems to me that the monetary blood donation reward is poorly thought out and has a lot of problems that this kidney-selling system is trying to sidestep. In particular, I think this kidney system isn't going to encourage poor people to donate their kidneys at all -- it will only give a monetary reward to people who pay lots of taxes (the middle class+).
I have a low opinion of NYT also. I was onboard with (carefully) monetarily rewarding kidney donations already.
What parts of lefism and libertarianism do you agree with?
An incomplete list:
Leftism
Libertarianism:
Those two things you put under libertarianism are rather leftist, and not very libertarian as they actually practice their beliefs, see Milei
Fair enough. So maybe I'm only 4% libertarian :)
My gut response when those things are challenged is "but muh freedom!" so it certainly feels libertarian.
Also, the left-of-liberal party in my country (NDP) disagrees with me on these matters.