BEYOND DISGUST #18 ~ OBAMA REGULATION CZAR ADVOCATED REMOVING HUMAN ORGANS WITHOUT EXPLICIT CONSENT

I disrespectfully submit Cass's Sunstein's brain (what's left of it) be removed and donated to the Frankenstein Laboratory for robotic studies. As well I believe Harvard has lost its status as a producer of great political movers and shakers.

CSN NEWS
September 4, 2009
by Matt Cover

Cass Sunstein, President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), has advocated a policy under which the government would “presume” someone has consented to having his or her organs removed for transplantation into someone else when they die unless that person has explicitly indicated that his or her organs should not be taken.

The concept of "presumed consent" regarding a hospital's harvesting of organs under such laws makes all patients nothing more than "potential human supermarkets". How easily this could be abused if enough money came along to find a specific match for an extremely generous purchaser!

Under such a policy, hospitals would harvest organs from people who never gave permission for this to be done.

Outlined in the 2008 book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” Sunstein and co-author Richard H. Thaler argued that the main reason that more people do not donate their organs is because they are required to choose donation.

Sunstein and Thaler pointed out that doctors often must ask the deceased’s family members whether or not their dead relative would have wanted to donate his organs. These family members usually err on the side of caution and refuse to donate their loved one’s organs.

“The major obstacle to increasing organ donations is the need to get the consent of surviving family members,” said Sunstein and Thaler.

This problem could be remedied if governments changed the laws for organ donation, they said. Currently, unless a patient has explicitly chosen to be an organ donor, either on his driver’s license or with a donor card, the doctors assume that the person did not want to donate and therefore do not harvest his organs. Thaler and Sunstein called this “explicit consent.”

They argued that this could be remedied if government turned the law around and assumed that, unless people explicitly choose not to, then they want to donate their organs ~ a doctrine they call “presumed consent.”

NEXT to come, a thief steals my belongings and I am told that he can keep them because just by owning these things, I am practicing "presumed consent" and the thief was doing what comes naturally to thieves?

“Presumed consent preserves freedom of choice, but it is different from explicit consent because it shifts the default rule. Under this policy, all citizens would be presumed to be consenting donors, but they would have the opportunity to register their unwillingness to donate,” they explained.

The difference between explicit and presumed consent is that under presumed consent, many more people “choose” to be organ donors. Sunstein and Thaler noted that in a 2003 study only 42 percent of people actively chose to be organ donors, while only 18 percent actively opted out when their consent was presumed.

In cases where the deceased’s wishes are unclear, Sunstein and Thaler argued that a “presumed consent” system would make it easier for doctors to convince families to donate their loved one’s organs.

Citing a 2006 study, Thaler and Sunstein wrote: “The next of kin can be approached quite differently when the decedent’s silence is presumed to indicate a decision to donate rather than when it is presumed to indicate a decision not to donate. This shift may make it easier for the family to accept organ donation.”

The problem of the deceased’s family is only one issue, Sunstein and Thaler said, admitting that turning the idea of choice on its head will invariably run into major political problems, but these are problems they say the government can solve through a system of “mandated choice.”

“Another [problem] is that it is a hard sell politically,” wrote Sunstein and Thaler. “More than a few people object to the idea of ‘presuming’ anything when it comes to such a sensitive matter. For these reasons we think that the best choice architecture for organ donations is mandated choice.”

Mandated choice is a process where government forces you to make a decision ~ in this case, whether to opt out of being an organ donor to get something you need, such as a driver’s license.

“With mandated choice, renewal of your driver’s license would be accompanied by a requirement that you check a box stating your organ donation preferences,” the authors stated. “Your application would not be accepted unless you had checked one of the boxes.”

To ensure that people’s decisions align with the government policy of more organ donors, Sunstein and Thaler counseled that governments should follow the state of Illinois’ example and try to influence people by making organ donation seem popular.

“First, the state stresses the importance of the overall problem (97,000 people [in Illinois] on the waiting list and then brings the problem home, literally (4,700 in Illinois),” they wrote.

“Second, social norms are directly brought into play in a way that build on the power of social influences peer pressure: ‘87 percent of adults in Illinois feel that registering as an organ donor is the right thing to do’ and ’60 percent of adults in Illinois are registered,’” they added.

Sunstein and Thaler reminded policymakers that people will generally do what they think others are doing and what they believe others think is right. These presumptions, which almost everyone has, act as powerful factors as policymakers seek to design choices.

“Recall that people like to do what most people think is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do,” they wrote. “The state is enlisting existing norms in the direction of lifestyle choices.”

The American government is getting closer and closer to the darkness of Soylent Green. It's scary to think that a government entity other than you and your family have control over your life and body, even in death. Stop them while you can! Speak out at all turns and don't be afraid. Don't forget WE SURROUND THEM.

Thaler and Sunstein believed that this and other policies are necessary because people don’t really make the best decisions.

“The false assumption is that almost all people, almost all of the time, make choices that are in their best interest or at the very least are better than the choices that would be made [for them] by someone else,” they said.

This means that government “incentives and nudges” should replace “requirements and bans,” they argued.

Neither Sunstein nor Thaler currently are commenting on their book, a spokesman for the publisher, Penguin Group, told CNSNews.com.

In a question-and-answer section on the Amazon.com Web site, Thaler and Sunstein answered a few questions about their book.

Another shining example of the American government's attempt to use satanic tools to abort our God given right to make our own choices. It's very clear that the authors of this book are not Christian, but hard boiled atheists who have no respect for anything to do with decent values. Everything for these folks is coldly cut and dried. It is an extremely Communist way of looking at choices. A moral decision to them is no longer "right" or "wrong" . Instead the new standard is "legal" or "illegal" .

When asked what the title “Nudge” means and why people need to be nudged, the authors stated: “By a nudge we mean anything that influences our choices. A school cafeteria might try to nudge kids toward good diets by putting the healthiest foods at front.

“We think that it's time for institutions, including government, to become much more user-friendly by enlisting the science of choice to make life easier for people and by gently nudging them in directions that will make their lives better,” they wrote.

WHOA! Did they just say that civilians are so stupid we need the government to use MORE psychological manipulation of the masses so that we will give away body parts? Anyone who is familiar with the work of Edward Bernais, the father of societal manipulation, recognizes this tactic for what it is.

“The human brain is amazing, but it evolved for specific purposes, such as avoiding predators and finding food,” said Thaler and Sunstein. “Those purposes do not include choosing good credit card plans, reducing harmful pollution, avoiding fatty foods, and planning for a decade or so from now. Fortunately, a few nudges can help a lot.”

DEAR LORD WHO ARE THESE MEN? AND WHAT MAKES THEM HAVE HUMAN BRAINS THAT CAN MAKE SUCH MOMENTOUS DECISIONS FOR THE REST OF US? DID THEY JUST SAY BRAINS ARE NOT GOOD FOR THINKING? NOT ADEPT AND THE MATHS, SCIENCES, AND ABSTRACT THOUGHT?

I have just found an article by a British physician pushing the same ideas. It seems to me that nothing is ever local any more. The powers that be all around the globe work hand in glove especially when it concerns human management or herd culling.