This is a utilitarian-ish argument. I would consider the following questions:
- Who owns your organs before death?
- Who owns your organs after death?
- I assume you are opting-out from a government mechanism for organ donation. What is the origin of the government's power to claim your dead organs unless you opt-out?
3. The origin for the claim is that you accept to give your organs, and it is that way by default in a lot of countries because most people either don't care or actively want to save lives. If you don't want to give them for whatever reason, you can always opt out
I would also like to point out that this whole point seems like debating for the pleasure of rhetoric : there is no specific downside to having organ donation opt out by default, as a lot of countries do, for example France since 76. And if you don't agree with organ donation, just opt out. There is, however, a huge upside : saving a lot of lives.
- Who owns your organs before death?
- Who owns your organs after death?
- I assume you are opting-out from a government mechanism for organ donation. What is the origin of the government's power to claim your dead organs unless you opt-out?