“MALAY DILEMMA” VS “MALAYSIA DILEMMA”
“I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look things carefully make comparisons of what I see. I don’t accept things at face value, you cannot trust what you hear or see. Don’t jump to conclusions without thinking”
-Mahathir Mohamad -
What is dilemma? Basically dilemma is a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. In this case, “Malay Dilemma” and “Malaysia Dilemma” is to be compared
Malaysia is one of the great international success stories of the past generation. Back then, Malaysia lagged behind Haiti in per capita income but since then it has grown an average of 7 percent annually and would rank third in per capita wealth in the Western Hemisphere. In any standard, the growth is very outstanding. Moreover, Malaysia had evolved from an agrarian economy since its independence in 1957 into an industrial one envied by many other developing nations. Vision 2020 was launched by Dr. Mahathir
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Since, there are also pleas for a shift to ‘social development’, which is believed to add more to happiness than continued economic development does. ‘Social development’ is a rhetoric notion in the first place. It denotes a contrast with ‘economic development’, but has no clear meaning in itself. The term suggests something more communitarian than market economy, leaving open what that precisely is. The concept functions in fact as an umbrella for different ‘alternative’ views, suggesting that these go together. The organ donation among Malaysian leads to the Malay Dilemma on social development because eventhough the Malays in Malaysia is the largest ethnics, but unfortunately the statistics shows that the Malays are the least to sign up for organ donation. As we know, organ donation among the world community today is not a new
There are a lot of people in this world that are going through organ failure. The National Kidney Foundation even found, “Every fourteen minutes someone is added to the kidney transplant list”. Statistically speaking, that is a great deal of people in need of a vital organ. The author Joanna MacKay talks about the need for organ donations in her article “Organ Sales Will Save Lives”. MacKay disputes her case briefly when stating her thesis in the first paragraph. She gives the audience her opinion on how the selling of organs should be built to become legal. Throughout the text she touches on the black market selling of kidneys. She also incorporates how other third world countries have allowed this practice of organ sales. The article includes her insight on what would happen if organ sales would be legalized and how it would be regulated.
MacKay argues that although some argue against organ sales because the poor will be exploited, that whether the organ sales are legalized or not the poor are already being exploited. Poor people do not need harsher penalties against organ sales for protection from this exploitation. They need legalization monitored by government and other organizations in a regulated system to help them make more educated or “informed” decisions. This could be accomplished by adding education into the
Recognized as one of the most gripping medical advances of the century, organ transplantation provides a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs. Organ transplantation requires the participation of both fellow human beings and of society by donating organs from deceased or living individuals. The ever increasing rate of organ failure and the inadequate supply of organs have created a significant gap between organ supply and organ demand. This gap has resulted in extremely lengthy waiting times to receive an organ as well as an increased number of deaths among those waiting for an organ. These events have raised many ethical, moral and societal issues regarding supply, the methods of organ allocation and the use of living donors as volunteers including minors. It has also led to the practice of organ sale by entrepreneurs for financial gains in some parts the world through exploitation of the poor, for the benefit of the wealthy. This paper presents valuable information regarding organ transplantation while supporting the medical definition of the term “brain death”
"But my hope is to write a book that will be useful . . . and so I thought it sensible to go straight to a discussion of how things are in real life and not waste time with a discussion of an imaginary world; for the gap between how people actually behave and how they ought to behave is so great that anyone who ignores everyday reality in order to live up to an ideal will soon discover he has been taught how to destroy himself, not preserve himself."
A dilemma could be defined as being forced to choose between two equally unsatisfactory options. Let’s look at an example of a dilemma. A man steals food to feed his starving family. He was facing the tough choke of breaking the law and going to jail versus the starvation of his family. Should this man be arrested and put in jail? What if you were sitting on the jury at this main’s trail? Would you send him to jail or say he was justified because he was only trying to feed his family? Now you have a dilemma to face as you determine his fate.
Yet even though this system works so well in Iran, the rest of the world bans organ sales. Experts say that the market would be immoral. They state, for example, that it would exploit the poor, as most transplants would occur between poor donors and rich recipients, perhaps creating transplant tourism where rich people traveled to poor countries just to receive a transplant (Ghods & Savaj, 2006). The Iranian model addresses these problems very well – they forbid the transplantation of Iranian organs into foreigners, which eliminates the chances for transplant tourism. In addition, because the government pays for the purchasing of organs, both the poor and the rich have an equal chance of receiving transplants. Even though the majority of organ donors are poor, the majority of recipients are also poor (Ghods & Savaj, 2006).
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” - To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee.
Kishore begins his paper by discussing the high demands for organ donation. By doing this Kishore illustrates that donation through waiting lists and from deceased individuals does not fill the needs of our population, resulting in around 17 people per day dying while waiting for a transplant. Kishore then discusses organs acquired through donation, which is widely regarded as an altruistic process. However, Kishore demies this notion by stating that donation of organs is not as altruistic as it seems. When someone donates their organ it does not go to the person more in need or most deserving but typically to someone known by the donor, to fulfill their own desire to not loose that person. Kishore even challenges anonymous donation stating that it is typically motivated by an attempt to satisfy one’s own needs, all donation is tainted by one’s own desires and are not truly altruistic. For Kishore these conventional methods of acquiring organs accept the idea that a recipient may benefit at the expense of another and that a donor may forfeit their bodily integrity. By accepting these two ideas, Kishore believes that selling organs should therefore be
“The truth is never simple. It’s only in the Western world that you think knowledge is something you can acquire quickly and easily. It takes time. The truth never hurries.”
You must see through their eyes, hear through their ears, and walk in their shoes first. I love when authors use this message. If we remember from before the quote from the unknown author, we can relate to this message still to this day. It is not a message to just be heard in one era or century; it could still affect and change the world we live in
“While the importance of the moral issues raised by organ sales should not be downplayed there is a need for a more nuanced account of the mechanisms of organ trading, linking the emergence of the organ trade to wider political, cultural and socioeconomic factors” (Columb, 2015, P. 23). “A very distinctive style of argument against organ sale appeals to the supposed value of altruism” (Wilkinson, 2016). These arguments emerge in various distinctive structures, yet a substantial portion of them have the accompanying fundamental structure: acts of altruism something to be thankful for, either inherently, or considering its beneficial outcomes (or both), and by allowing and additionally permitting organ sales would reduce the measure of charitableness on the planet. A financial incentive only furthermore takes away from the choice of voluntariness and the altruism of the organ and organ tissue.
“The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds”
Organ donation is a controversial issue in most countries which simply involves the donation of a biological organ or tissue from a living or dead human body to a living recipient who needs a transplant or for scientific research. There have been several debates on the issue that everyone should be willing to donate their organ as it is of no use when they die. Some members of the public consider organ donation as an ultimate gift of life. Some people on the other hand, consider it improper due to religious or moral belief. A donor card is a card which a person carries to specify the approval to the use of their organs or body parts for transplantation or scientific use in the event of their death. This essay will support the statement that everyone should carry a donor card and state the reasons on how it can help improve the chances of survival.
Throughout history, medical advancements and breakthroughs have been increasing exponentially, especially in recent years. These breakthroughs have had a profuse impact on our society as the average life expectancy in the United States has increased from 68 years in 1950 to 79 years in 2017. One of these revolutions in medicine is the process of organ donation. But unlike the majority of these medical innovations, organ donation has become a controversial topic amongst our society. Although organ donation is not a perfect process and may not follow all religious beliefs, it should be supported because it allows for medical advancements to occur throughout the world, follows strict regulations to ensure fairness, and allows for the gift of
Malaysia’s GDP Annual Growth Rate since 2000 till present. Notice the sharp contraction after the 2008 Financial Crises.