I have started discussing with people the idea of having a “Sponsored” altruistic kidney donation. This would be much like a sponsored half-marathon or something, with money collected for AMF or another high impact charity.
I brought the idea up at an event on fundraising we recently ran, in a room of 20+ people, 50⁄50 EA and non-EA, most seemed super sceptical about the idea. This could be down to how squeamish people are about the idea of kidney donations.
I have also had people mention that this could present EA in a very extreme and unpalatable light, which is my main concern about actually doing this.
Interesting idea, I really like it. Who were going to be the donors for this event?
I really thought that the kidney recipient and their family and friends should be the ones making the donations though. The idea is to get around a gap in the market; you can’t “buy a kidney”.
But
I don’t know how legal “donate in anticipation of a kidney’ is either
Maybe this would squick people’s ‘unfairness’ concerns anyway? (E.g., ‘1%-ers can now buy a kidney indirectly, middle class Americans cannot’)
… the fact that the 1% would also be helping many more people with their donation gets lost in that conversation
I have started discussing with people the idea of having a “Sponsored” altruistic kidney donation. This would be much like a sponsored half-marathon or something, with money collected for AMF or another high impact charity.
I brought the idea up at an event on fundraising we recently ran, in a room of 20+ people, 50⁄50 EA and non-EA, most seemed super sceptical about the idea. This could be down to how squeamish people are about the idea of kidney donations.
I have also had people mention that this could present EA in a very extreme and unpalatable light, which is my main concern about actually doing this.
Interesting idea, I really like it. Who were going to be the donors for this event?
I really thought that the kidney recipient and their family and friends should be the ones making the donations though. The idea is to get around a gap in the market; you can’t “buy a kidney”.
But
I don’t know how legal “donate in anticipation of a kidney’ is either
Maybe this would squick people’s ‘unfairness’ concerns anyway? (E.g., ‘1%-ers can now buy a kidney indirectly, middle class Americans cannot’) … the fact that the 1% would also be helping many more people with their donation gets lost in that conversation
I was mostly thinking friends and family, but I was hoping the novelty factor could spread it to local communities
Wow yeah I have a feeling you’d get your name down in case-law either way.