Depending on who you talk to, selling an organ of a poor person could be considered exploitative because you are taking advantage of the fact that you know they are in need of money and would possibly do whatever they need to do to survive. Same with selling government information to an informant for money. If someone is in complete debt and just needed 90,000 to get out of debt and offered 150,000 for one of their organs, they may very well take that offer. Take the sudden death of Bill (BJ) from California born with an arteriovenous malformation causing cerebral hemorrhage. He was able to give life to 4 people through the donation of his heart, liver, kidneys, and pancreas (Health Resources & Services Administration, n.d.). BJ was only 14 years old. I believe this story is not exploitative because he did not choose to lose his life and his family chose to donate his organs. The word exploitative to me means taking advantage of a person or group for the purpose of making money off them unfairly for your own advantage.

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A “Gentle Giant” Touches Four Lives (n.d.) Health Resources & Services Administration Retrieved June 21, 2020, from https://www.organdonor.gov/statistics-stories/donation-stories/bj-organ-donor.html