00:01
For this problem, we are talking about kidney transplants.
00:04
And here, i'm just drawing two kidneys, not lungs, not kidney beans, but kidneys themselves, which are very significant organs in the urinary system that are mainly responsible for filtering blood and making sure that we are excreting actual wastes through our urine that we need to.
00:25
That's a very broad simplistic version of the kidneys but anyway just a bit of context before we jump in now it turns out kidneys were one of the first uh actually they were the first organs to be successfully transplanted so first if i could spell first correctly and i believe there's an s in there first successful uh transplant that's an organ right so now this is the case because it turns out that most people can live a normal life with a single kidney.
01:06
Everyone has two kidneys, so we can live with only one, which is great.
01:14
It's great to hear because some things, it's not as simple.
01:17
Some things we need more than one in order to survive.
01:21
So this is the case with the kidney.
01:24
But the whole point of this is people can donate their kidney if they need to.
01:29
But some countries, maybe if they need excess kidneys for transplants or for medical needs or if someone's needs another kidney, people will actually sell their kidneys because they could use the money.
01:43
So in poorer countries, right, because people know they can survive just one kidney, and this is a bit of a demonic picture, don't worry about it.
01:57
But they will give this kidney for money because they need money more than they need two functioning kidneys, i suppose.
02:07
So we need to talk about this ethically a little bit without really getting too much into all the nating gritty.
02:15
What are the pros and cons of this? and believe it or not, there are pros.
02:19
It sounds a little messed up, but one, we talked about you only need one kidney to survive.
02:27
So we can actually allow other people to help others in need.
02:40
Because that kidney, it's not going to be used as a toy.
02:46
It's going to help others in need.
02:50
It's not going to help others in need, but it will also help others in need medically.
02:57
That's the key here.
03:01
But it will give money to people who potentially or who does.
03:06
Definitely need it who are very poor.
03:11
So that's the main pro.
03:15
And to it incentivizes, incentivize, i'll just abbreviate incentivizes on people to donate kidneys...