One of my favourite theories is social contract theory by Thomas Hobbes, there was a way he described the concept of humans freewill that got me thinking about some human rights. Based on his perspective of social contract theory, he said, from the starting point of human civilisation there was absent of a centralised authority which resulted to some sort of chaos because every single human will do anything to cling unto the little authority in their possession and try to use it on others.
We were free to do as we please but yet, we put ourselves in danger because human nature is chaotic and that was why we got into a social contract by inventing laws to create order in the human society, to protect our lives and property. Which means our "Will" to do what is right is not strong enough to protect us from ourselves. In order to ensure laws have a strong hold, specific bodies were granted the authority to serve as enforcers of the law, with this comes a centralised authority we now know today.
You might be wondering, what does this have to do with human organs? you are right it doesn't but it has everything to do with our right to do as we please with our organs. Every now and then, the human factions are always fighting for the need to exercise one right or the other, forgetting why we surrendered our authority to a centralised authority. If all rights were granted to humans, what will become of the world? There are somethings we humans have been forgetting in recent times, it might look like it is our rights to do somethings but doesn't make those things right.
Without granting humans legal right to sell organs as they please, we are already battling with all sorts of organ trafficking issues. Now imagine if humans were granted the right to monitise their organs, it might look cool but when you start looking at it more careful you will discover how fast this can go wrong.
I usually tell people that, never underestimate human greed, it is the worst plague of all. If this kind of right existed, organs will become a source of income but then, One individual only have few organs to sell. It won't be long before humans start looking for ways to legally harvest others organs. The law is filled with lot of loopholes, loopholes humans will gladly take advantage of. For these kind of laws to be effective, it will be dependent on individual consent for their organs to be harvested.
As long as a person can find a way to harvest others organs by making them consent to it, the law will be powerless to hold them accountable for their dubious exploitation of the law. This right to allow individuals do whatever they want with their organs is already existing in today's society but it is not something considered a legitimate source of income. But when the law publicly grants people the right to sell their organs or to do whatever they want with their body, it won't be long before human organs sales start appearing of Jumia, Konga, AliExpress e.t.c
People will openly declare their organs for sale, then a new era of humans and organ trafficking will begin. I believe some rights should be controlled because we humans can't be trusted to behave ourselves. Legalising organ sales will only lead to more brutal and life threatening issues.
This write-up was inspired by weekly featured content titled Organ market in hive learners community.
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