Rexlander E.

Blanza
First year Block A
Mrs. Josefina Callada

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Apply now all six steps to the question, " is selling one of my kidneys to a paying
customer morally defensible? Write down your application below:

STEP 1:
The very idea of living individuals selling body parts prompts revulsion in some
people, while others may ask whether the price is right.

STEP 2:
Actually, the people selling their kidneys are not properly considered donors; they
are "vendors" kidney selling is illegal in every country in the world, except Iran.

STEP 3:
The shortage of available kidneys for transplantation leaves many people on
burdensome dialysis for years, while others die awaiting a functioning kidney. Still,
a thriving business takes place underground and in black markets worldwide.

STEP 4:
Author Janet Radcliffe Richards, a professor of practical philosophy at Oxford
University in the U.K. confronts the issue head-on in a book published late last
year.

STEP 5:
Most of her arguments are persuasive. She rightly points out that we cannot draw
any conclusions from the curent situation about how a regulated market would
work, since most of the unsavory conditions in the black market could be
eliminated.

STEP 6:
I believe that intuition and gut reactions do not provide a reliable guide to ethical
action. Yet, even though kidney selling is illegal in all countries except Iran, I have
been unable to identify a sound ethical principle that justifies such a prohibition.
Provided that the markets could be legally regulated, is there any sound ethical
argument out there for preventing a potentially. Lifesaving, mutually beneficial
exchange?
II. Examine your feelings or emotions regarding the issue of organ trafficking. Did
you feel sympathetic to the woman who was about to sell her kidney to her Saudi
Arabian husband? Or were you morally repulsed by what she was planning to do?
Apply Ramon C. Reyes's idea of the five cross-points that contribute to the
formation of who you are in order to understand your feelings about this particular
moral issue. List below the elements that make up each of your cross-points:

1. Physical Cross-point:
We are member of the species homo sapiens and therefore possess the capacities
and limitations endemic to human beings everywhere which makes me conclude
an idea of what we called limitations and the capacities in each individual. The
benefits attained of the husband on his new kidney will be a loss to the woman's
physical body and especially it will greatly affect her health.

2. Interpersonal cross-point:
As stated by Ramon C. Reyes about this cross-point is that, the personality,
character traits, and overall way of doing things and thinking about things affected
by the people sorrounding her: siblings, relatives, classmates, playmates, and
eventually workmates and also who one is -in the sense of one's character
personality-has been shaped by one's relationship as well as the physical factors
that affect how one thinks and feels. So therefore, I conclude that th woman's
decision on selling her organ to his husband and neglecting any negative
circumstances in her part is greatly affected by her invironment and personality.

3. Social cross-points:
Society pertains to all the elements of the human groups that one is a member of
culture is included here " who one is" is molded in large part by the kind of society
and culture, which one did not choose that one belongs to. Therefore, I conclude
that through this social point an individual is shaped and mold in terms of her way
of perceptions and decisions which in the case of the women's its either she will
accept it or not.

4. Historical cross-point:
Is simply the events that one's people has undergone. In short, one's people's
history shapes 'who one is" is right not. "who one is" is also a project for one's self.
This happens because a human individual has freedom. This freedom is not
absolute: one does not become something because one chooses to be. If means
that one has the capacity to give herself a particular direction in life according to
her own ideal self. So even if it is your husband this is not a factor for you to
neglect your freedom and your ideal self just to pleasure what your husband
needed especially organ trafficking is a really an issue and a bad doing.

5. Existential cross-point:
What one ought to do in one's life is not dictated by one's physical, interpersonal,
social, or historical conditions. One is always continously being shaped by many
factors outside of one's own free will. The human individual thus always exists in
the tension between being conditioned by external factors and being a free agent.
By these concepts in this cross-ponts, I conclude that the women itself has his own
will of coming up with this idea due the reasons of some factors which is the
relationship itself wit his husband that is her own existence which not dictated by
any physical, social or historical condition opposing my answers in the previous
cross-point.

Given the five cross-points that make up who you are, can you provide an
explanation below why you feel the way that you do toward the woman who was
about to sell her kidney? How can you make sure that your feelings about the
matter are not trapped in kohlberg's pre-conventional stage?

1. how did I feel toward the woman who was about to sell her kidney and why:

Answer:
I can't deny that I was worried on the woman's side, but knowing that she's doing
it for her spouse helps me understand that everything we do has a reason. Her
mission is to save the person she cares about. Who wouldn't do it if we were in our
situation? Of course, we'll go to any length to save our loved ones. Now that I've
considered all of the things I've acquired while gathering data and information, I
completely agree that selling her kidneys isn't such a horrible idea if it means
saving the person she loves while also saving her own body. That is her choice.

2. how do I make sure my feelings are morally mature and not trapped in the pre-
conventional stage:

Answer:
So im trying to figure out if my feelings are morally mature or if I'm stuck in the
pre-conventional stage. Then I must ensure that I understand the definitions of the
two, given the morally mature and even pre-conventional stages, before delvig
deeper into determining the difference between the two. But im confident in my
moral maturity. Moral maturity is required in a person whose to implement a
knowledge base or a skill to the solving or to the comprehension of a situation if
the knowledge is not to persist conceptual and the skill possibilities
unacknowledged while the morality is extrinsically governed during the pre-
conventional stage. Equal extent by people in authority are accompanied to avoid
prosecution or reap rewards.