Scottish academic encourages selling kidneys to pay off student loan debt

Scottish academic encourages selling kidneys to pay off student loan debt - but says she would never do it, since she has money (of course)

By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
It is no secret that student loans are treated as exceptional by the financial industry and governments. You cannot get out of your student loan debts through bankruptcy, unlike every other type of loan. Similarly, unlike other types of loans, those avoiding payments might find themselves looking down the barrel of automatic weapons brandished by a SWAT team. You might even find yourself in this situation if your estranged wife fails to pay up to the education mafia.

To make matters even worse for Americans, recently the Supreme Court decided that you do not necessarily have a right to a... when being charged with failure to pay debts. Instead, you will very likely be carted off to debtor’s prison without free legal counsel.

Luckily, a brilliant Scottish academic has solved these problems! Worried about being thrown in debtor’s prison or never being able to get out of a student loan that never paid off in any appreciable way anyways? Why not just sell one of your organs?

Sue Rabbitt Roff of the Dundee University has been campaigning for the legalization of organ sales in the UK. Currently, under the Human Tissue Act of 2004, it is illegal to buy and sell organs and tissues in the United Kingdom.
Roff, a senior research fellow at Dundee University’s Department of Medical Sociology argues that we should allow students “to do a very kind and generous thing but also meet their own needs”. I guess Roff has never weighed the possibility of restructuring the entire way student loans are issued or the concept of student loans themselves.

Instead of thinking about how we can alleviate the ridiculous debt burden placed on students attempting to get a now all-but-worthless college degree, Roff is advocating the legalization of organ harvesting. Personally, I would find this laughable if it was not so disturbing.
I think it is a clear indication something is horribly wrong with our society when giving up vital organs for cash is actually considered a viable way of paying off banking cartels.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick W on August 8, 2011 at 3:12am

After the many documented cases of Jewish organ theft and black market trading in human body parts, we now have a Jewish academic advocating students selling their organs to pay for their crap education.
DISGUSTING

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Permalink Reply by LYNN SHEDLER on August 10, 2011 at 4:12am

Family members that do not honour the wishes of the dying by the donor card we have is so cruel!! 5 people at least could be saved with donations from one Brain Dead person. What good are the organs going to do if they are buried or cremated. None.

Wake up Family members - the dead are speaking out for their rights and the courts are behind there decisions!! To hell with Religion, that has nothing to do with it. Honour the dead donour and their decision to give generiously...

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Permalink Reply by LYNN SHEDLER on August 16, 2011 at 3:59am

We were in our 30's at the time and finished University. Norman being older than I had a lot more debt on his plate than I did. He became a Doctor and Father and was struggling to make ends meet. He made arrangements with a bank the pay off his student loan for medical services and small monthly payments; meaning the bank staff could got to him for health related reasons at no cost. This was in New Brunswick and I went to a wedding there and we met. Small world. The Bride was a patient of his and in New Brunswick you could ask your Doctor to your wedding. I was from Toronto and in Toronto you had to pay 1/2 of a year in advance. That way the University was sure you were going to pay up. I'm now glad they did that because my loan was small compared to other Provinces. What they do now - I don't know. Many loans back then went unpaid. And that was hurting the financial instituations across Ontario. People / students were not working and loans went unpaid. Selling an organ was unheard of. My view is that it's discusting to even think of it; just to pay off a student loan!!!

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Permalink Reply by KingKhan on August 20, 2011 at 9:04am

Wow that is just disgusting. Not surprising that this idea is coming from an elitist who will most likely profit from this industry. And who is probably backed by research dollars of certain nations to push this idea into the mainstream.

But sadly this seems like an evolution for these banking cartels. Your house and your assests are not enough, we now need your organs.

What next?