Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad2 210
aquabat writes "According to Shanghai Daily, a boy from the Anhui Province desperately wanted to buy Apple's flagship tablet but didn't have enough cash. Rather than waiting to save up the money for the Apple product when it invariably gets marked down, the lad decided to sell one of his kidneys for 22,000 yuan (roughly $3,400) so he could afford one. But, surprisingly, the scenario in which the organ was harvested wasn't in the best of conditions, and the boy isn't feeling very well."
Re:Greed (Score:4, Insightful)
That's his own damn fault for agreeing to have some random person on the internet perform invasive surgery. Stupid actions have consequences.
This, literally, makes me ill. (Score:0, Insightful)
That is all.
Re:Greed (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Greed (Score:5, Insightful)
Compassion for stupidity only results in an increase in stupidity.
On the positive side... (Score:4, Insightful)
The boy has probably saved another person life. Hopefully these operations were not too botched and everyone will get to live.
Just his kidney? (Score:3, Insightful)
Wow, if he gave Steve Jobs his pancreas his family could've gotten some shares of Apple, an iPad 2 and more Mac shit than he could shake a chopstick at. It'd save Steve the embarassment of buying his way ahead in line for another transplant.
Re:Greed (Score:5, Insightful)
It's pretty hard to have compassion for something so obviously stupid. If he'd sold it to help his sick mother or something that would be grounds for compassion, but he significantly shortened his lifespan to buy a tech toy which will be passe in a year's time, if not sooner.. wtf..
Re:Next step (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Greed (Score:2, Insightful)
100% agree.
We need to stop believing the drivel that is being shoveled at us.
All points of view are valid. (Bullshit. Some points of view have no basis in reality.)
There is no black and white, good and bad. It is all shades of gray. (Again Bullshit. Some people and ideas are just dead wrong. This is one of them.)
There must be tolerance for all our differences. ( This one is complicated. Yes. Tolerance should be practiced for most differences. No tolerance for child rape and so on. But. People tend to act as if tolerance and acceptance are equal. They are not. You should definitely be able to tell the difference between me accepting you and me tolerating your existence.)
There are many more. And compassion without reason is one.
Do not feel compassion for a person that chooses to sell their kidney for an iPad. It does them no good. It does you no good. It does society harm.
Re:Greed (Score:3, Insightful)
Looking at your posting history, you have some fairly deep-seated issues and it's fairly obvious that you're using Slashdot as an outlet. Get outside and breathe the fresh air more - perhaps move out of the city if you're stuck in one.
It's fortunate that people are more compassionate than you, otherwise you'd probably be out on the street by now. The only stupidity here is your religious understanding of the human brain as having the potential to be a perfectly rational machine rather than just another biological organ with the potential for programming and faults. This guy, if even real, is either an ignorant kid or a man with significant mental health problems, as is anyone who would destroy his body for short term thrill. Even though you and any fellow human would be better off if he were healthy, your sadism instead forces you to revel in his suffering. You're faulty, and I'm sorry for you.
tl;dr You're a buffoon and people don't even expect gratitude for their tolerance of you - how lucky are you?