Chinese teenager sells kidney to buy iPad and iPhone

[FourWheelDrift]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13647...

BBC said:

A 17-year-old Chinese boy has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPhone and iPad, according to local media reports.

The boy, identified only as Xiao Zheng (Little Zheng), is said to have undergone surgery in central Hunan Province in April.

And then the contract will cost him an arm and a leg.

[FraserLFA]

Do Doctors have no morals!?

[elster]

FraserLFA said:

Do Doctors have no morals!?

Of course they do, theirs are just a hell of a lot lower that ours.

[WhoseGeneration]

elster said:

Of course they do, theirs are just a hell of a lot lower that ours.

Meaning?
Trouble is this thread could lead us into all sorts of philosophical considerations.
Opinions though, will depend upon anyone's personal philosophy.
Therefore, no absolute answer.

[elster]

WhoseGeneration said:

Meaning?
Trouble is this thread could lead us into all sorts of philosophical considerations.
Opinions though, will depend upon anyone's personal philosophy.
Therefore, no absolute answer.

I doubt they would rip out a 7 year olds kidney who wanted a new bike.

[FraserLFA]

WhoseGeneration said:

Therefore, no absolute answer.

If that wasn't the case with most threads, they'd be very short.

[WhoseGeneration]

Well, I await Apple's PR department's response to this. If I were a journalist I'd demand an interview with Steve Jobs and ask him if he is proud that his products are so in demand and the marketing so good that a Chinese teenager would do this to obtain said products.
As I said above, philosphical questions.

[Pesty]

Somebody can have one of mine if they pay off the mortgage and buy me an Aventador.

Edited by Pesty on Friday 3rd June 23:09

[Dan_1981]

A week after losing my iPhone and having to use a Samsung s8000 or something hideous.

I'm tempted to sell one of my kidneys.

Have to be for a white one of course though.....

[66comanche]

Dan_1981 said:

A week after losing my iPhone and having to use a Samsung s8000 or something hideous.

I'm tempted to sell one of my kidneys.

Have to be for a white one of course though.....

Ahh, must be awful for you, does it make you feel terribly inferior?

[voyds9]

Dan_1981 said:

Have to be for a white one of course though.....

Why what's wrong with a black kidney

[WhoseGeneration]

elster said:

WhoseGeneration said:

Meaning?
Trouble is this thread could lead us into all sorts of philosophical considerations.
Opinions though, will depend upon anyone's personal philosophy.
Therefore, no absolute answer.

I doubt they would rip out a 7 year olds kidney who wanted a new bike.

Might depend upon how the cultural norms were where any seven year old lives.

[Y282]

did they sell it to steve jobs?

• gets coat*

[JoeFrost]

Dan_1981 said:

A week after losing my iPhone and having to use a Samsung s8000 or something hideous.

Awww, diddums.

[Hackney]

FourWheelDrift said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13647...

BBC said:

A 17-year-old Chinese boy has sold one of his kidneys in order to buy an iPhone and iPad, according to local media reports.

The boy, identified only as Xiao Zheng (Little Zheng), is said to have undergone surgery in central Hunan Province in April.

And then the contract will cost him an arm and a leg.

There's an op for that.

[Ari]

WhoseGeneration said:

Well, I await Apple's PR department's response to this. If I were a journalist I'd demand an interview with Steve Jobs and ask him if he is proud that his products are so in demand and the marketing so good that a Chinese teenager would do this to obtain said products.
As I said above, philosphical questions.

You think he should be aiming for advertising that makes his products less desirable?

"The new iPhone 4! It's not too bad".

[FourWheelDrift]

I don't care, I've got a new kidney and I've offloaded my faulty iPad.

[Driller]

That story is one of the saddest and desperate things I have ever read

[Tsippy]

FourWheelDrift said:

I don't care, I've got a new kidney and I've offloaded my faulty iPad.

I have just ordered 'Chinese Food in Minutes' if you want to borrow it and cook a stir-fry?

[Shitroen]

FourWheelDrift said:

I don't care, I've got a new kidney and I've offloaded my faulty iPad.

Follow Graham Linehan on Twitter, or has he stolen that from elsewhere?