headline: tv show has contestants vying for kidney transplant.
as macabre as it the show may sound, is it actually wrong? i mean, in the end someone will receive another lease on life, and that's more than most tv shows can say, right? its not easy to find a kidney donor. there are tests, lists, moneies, surgeries... you're on a list. it's not quite a first come first serve list, but it's not necessarily "fair" how people are ranked. somewat "undeserving" people (criminals on death row, perhaps) may get your kidney while a genetically defected 3 year old goes witout and dies. this woman, lisa, is doing a good thing by donating her organs. don't you think it's only fair that whoever gets it is someone she thinks who deserves it? i kno that for me personally, i would not be willing to donate my kidney to a person on death row or who has a life sentence in prison, or even to a really really old person. damnit, i want my kidney to go to someone who actually needs it and who i think will take care of it, and not just someone who wants it.
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dunno if you kno, but the show is actuaaly fake, in the sense that the chick giving away her organs is not dying. however, the contestants are real, they all need organ transplants.
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