"But why can't the person who needs the organ accept that he/she will face the inevitable? In time to come, organ will be a hot sales in singapore. Another first class world country with a team of superior doctors. It has to be Uniquely Singapore! So why not? Win-win situation."
"Allowing organ trading will only encourage 'snake heads' who would kidnap the poor (in certain rurual areas of certain countries), remove their organs agst their will and sell them. We cannot deny a person of his health if there are ways to do it without harming another person."
"If we allow casinos and prostitutes in many areas of Singapore, why should we not allow the sale of kidneys? I guess we all got 2 kidneys, may be one of them is destined for sharing, with or without money."
"The society as a whole penalise the poor easily rather then the rich...I think the syndicate and the buyers deserve much heavier penalty than those poor people."
"U earn money, another person earns his life back. What's the problem? Imagine... the day will come when illegitimate children are born and reared like cattle and pigs in some third-world country to be 'harvested' for their organs for sale once they are 'matured'."
ASIAONE POLL