Organ Sales Will Save Lives Summary

Joanna Mackay is the author of the article “Organs sales will saves lives,” saying that the best way to stop people from dying while on a kidney transplant list, and to help the 350,000+ people with end-stage renal disease, is to throw all morals out the window and take them from the “peasants” (MacKay 158 ) in third world countries. Since the poor are worthless, and only rich matter. Not only does MacKay say that it will help save lives in America, but that it will also better the lives of the poor. MacKay says that in return for taking their kidneys, they will receive a small thing of cash. She takes this to the extreme and says that this will bring the poor out poverty. These assumptions she makes in the article, prove to be a catastrophic flaw in her writing. Mackay makes these faulty statements like the ones used above, saying the poor are worthless and that we should only worry about saving the rich. Another major assumption MacKay makes is that the poor will do anything for cash. These are the flaws that hurts MacKays writing the most,

it affects the article in many different forms, it demolishes what could be a good article and idea.

The first part of MacKay bashing the poor flaw is that she shows a bias when talking about third world countries.

She does this by putting herself and rich people on a pedestal, showing that they are worth far more than anyone in a third world countries. She demeans the poor by using derogatory terms when she refers to people in third world countries such as “these people.”(158) Implying that they are not even good enough to get a name, showing that they are a waste of MacKay’s time. She uses statements that make you think she has no morals, including that there desperate and would do anything to better their condition, which includes selling a part of their bodies specifically their kidneys and that they should honor her in doing so, kinda like hitler who killed the jews for the “greater good” since they in her mind are just “peasants”(158) MacKay makes it feel like they are bettering the world by taking their

kidneys.
While you may be saving someone's life, your not bringing the poor out of poverty. MacKay says “we have a responsibility to protect and help those who are less fortunate.” (158) Taking their kidneys is not the way to do this, while that little bit of money they would get, could give some financial stability for a little bit, it would not be close to the amount needed to bring them out of poverty, it’s just like the saying “if you give a man a fish he is fed for the night, if you teach a man to fish he is fed for a lifetime.” This is another part of her bashing the poor flaw, since it looks like she tries to trick the reader into thinking that this is a win win situation, pretty much saying that the poor need money so bad that we can take their kidneys give them a little bit of cash and call it helping the poor out of poverty.
This flaw hurts MacKay as a writer, since no one wants to be associated with someone who calls poor people peasants. They would not also like to be around someone who thinks they are better than other people. The article “Organ sales will saves lives” could hurt her in the long run if she tries to publish another paper. Unfortunately for MacKay she now has a tie to her name and it is not a good one, it is one that is known for not caring about the poor and ties to someone who believes they are better than the people around them.
This would hurt her in the long run since she has a tie to her name that is not a good one. Publishers are not going to want to have someone who hates the poor write an article for them, because it could have catshorpic effects on the publisher. This could also hurt a reader, because if you miss the derogatory statements she makes, and you tell someone hey this is a good idea. It’s going to look like you hate the poor as well.
In conclusion the article “Organ sales will save lives” the author Joanna MacKay, bashes the poor to a point where no matter what point she is trying to make looks bad. Mackay believes that by taking things from the poor is bettering their lives, when in fact it is just a temporary solution, since MacKay decided to bash the poor, beyond repair. She will forever a tie to her name as someone who does not care about the less fortunate, and believes they are only there to help save rich people's lives.