Talk:Organ theft
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[edit] Another argument against
Take 'some random person in a bar.' Chances are for the organ harvesters that this person falls into the category of 'carrier of unpleasant disease'/'undiagnosed major problem with organ in question'/addiction to something unsuitable/links to someone bigger and badder and nastier than the organ harvesters/are actually a reptile or little Green Man. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:24, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- Chances are the "some random person in a bar" is someone in a first world country with a steady source of income and a home to go to: this person is not at risk of organ theft. This is classic penultimate paragraph syndrome: a load of waffle about how something which is very obviously an urban legend is very obviously an urban legend, before acknowledging in the final sentence that actually organ theft does indeed take place. But that's just poor people in foreign places, right? Nothing for our readers to worry about. Wẽãšẽĩõĩď
Methinks it is a Weasel 20:51, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- The third world organ harvesters don't kidnap people for their delicious organs; they get the poor schmucks to agree to the operation willingly, but either don't tell them what they agreed to or don't pay them what they promised. It's exploitation of more or less the worst kind, of course, but it's not remotely close to what people imagine when they think of organ theft. Unless they go by the Chinese prisoner organ harvesting conspiracy theories, anyway. I'm desperately trying to find a news source from years ago; some government agency asked people who had the bathtub full of ice scenario come forward; no one did. CorruptUser (talk) 21:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- The third world organ harvesters don't kidnap people for their delicious organs? Wrong. ωεαşεζόίď
Methinks it is a Weasel 22:17, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- (Reads link) Oh FSM! Put that in the page? CorruptUser (talk) 23:56, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
- The third world organ harvesters don't kidnap people for their delicious organs? Wrong. ωεαşεζόίď
- The third world organ harvesters don't kidnap people for their delicious organs; they get the poor schmucks to agree to the operation willingly, but either don't tell them what they agreed to or don't pay them what they promised. It's exploitation of more or less the worst kind, of course, but it's not remotely close to what people imagine when they think of organ theft. Unless they go by the Chinese prisoner organ harvesting conspiracy theories, anyway. I'm desperately trying to find a news source from years ago; some government agency asked people who had the bathtub full of ice scenario come forward; no one did. CorruptUser (talk) 21:57, 23 February 2015 (UTC)