Electricity Consultation Comments

I sent my comments on the government’s proposals for the electricity market. I will post them on the Capitalist Solutions site this week.

Sunday Review

A very late and quick review of yesterday’s SCMP. According to the post:

Former Iranian president Khatami claims that free speech is to blame for the current riots. No, Mr. Khatami the ones to blame are radical Islam, the Iranian leadership and the rioters that came out onto the streets and participated in the violent protests.

Canning Fok, Chairman of Hutchison Whampoa’s 3G service in Italy is blaming a lack of education for investors not wanting to pay about $9 billion dollars for an interest in the 3G service. I am not a fan of 3G yet, and I am wondering whether wireless might lead to the premature death of 3G.

Henry Tang has appointed Emily Lau as vice-chairman of the Business Facilitation Advisory Committee(BFAC), which is supposed to help businesses by reducing outdated rules and regulations. There first meeting is on Tuesday and my suggestion that if they really want to help business, that the first order of business should be to remove Ms Lau from the BFAC.

Organs for Sale Part 2

I want to pick up on a post by Flagrant Harbour regarding the resale of human organs. I did a post on the general sale of organs before but it bears repeating in light of what Flagrant says. in his post Flagrant writes:

I knew and whose bar I used to occasionally drink at has turned out to be a very low human being who would stoop to selling organs from the conveniently timed executions of people set to die at the hands of one of the world’s most untrustworthy justice systems.

Whoever this Jonathan Hakim is, he should be vilified.

It would be nice to find out that I had this all wrong.

I want to make it clear I generally disagree with a government executing a prisoner and then harvesting his organs without consent – particularly in a country where the justice system is still in need of justice. However what about in other circumstances when ordinary people who die? Should they be allowed to exercise their right to sell their organs so that their relatives can benefit from the proceeds? Should more people be able to exercise their right to buy organs so they can have a better and longer life? David Holcberg did an excellent article discussing these issues. It can be accessed here. It makes a compelling argument for ending the ban on the sale of human organs.