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Chinese Boy Sells Kidney For iPad2
aquabat writes "According to Shanghai Daily, a boy from the Anhui Province desperately wanted to buy Apple's flagship tablet but didn't have enough cash. Rather than waiting to save up the money for the Apple product when it invariably gets marked down, the lad decided to sell one of his kidneys for 22,000 yuan (roughly $3,400) so he could afford one. But, surprisingly, the scenario in which the organ was harvested wasn't in the best of conditions, and the boy isn't feeling very well."
You are the living proof that stupidity can exist without any compassion at all.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Like the compassion needed for the teenage girl that runs over and kills a motorcyclist....
In this case the one who does not deserve compassion is the motorcyclist.
Car manufacturers are always creating ways to make cars safer for the occupants, seat belts, air bags, crumple zones, structural reinforcements, etc. Then there comes this guy in a vehicle that's intrinsically unsafe, without any protection for the driver or passenger, a vehicle that's small enough to be difficult to spot by other drivers, a vehicle so unstable that it must be continuously moving, so unstable it topples over at the slightest skid. Any motorcyclist who dies gets a Darwin award.
But I agree with you that being a new driver is no excuse for causing accidents. Unfortunately, in most places the exam for getting a driver's license is ridiculously easy. IMHO, the exam should include driving at the highest speed limit in the country and handling emergencies in adverse conditions, such as making an emergency stop on a wet track at night. That would do much more for reducing traffic deaths than reducing alcohol limits, for instance.