Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Selma wrote: When we were in college we would all go down to donate blood and students from all walks of life be they Catholics or Hindus did this when blood drives were organised. (I never donated any because I was afraid, but my friends always did). The West donating blood is nothing to boast

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh, Your attack on me about organ donation, as often misses the larger point that I was trying to make. Gilbert, I am sorry. As usual, it is hard to understand what you are trying to say, and why you are saying it. In this new`installment

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-07 Thread Carvalho
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Santosh, Your attack on me about organ donation, as often misses the larger point that I was trying to make. The 'organ donation for a price' is that there is no hindrance to parting with one's organs in India. But there is hindrance to part

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-06 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Santosh, Your attack on me about organ donation, as often misses the larger point that I was trying to make. The 'organ donation for a price' is that there is no hindrance to parting with one's organs in India. But there is hindrance to part with something merely for an altruistic reason;

Re: [Goanet] David vs Goliath (organ donation)

2007-11-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert, Did you forget that it is you who made the following assertion, and you who provided Dinesh D'Souza's explanation for it (with which you agreed)? ASSERTION In the western world there is no shortage of voluntary /free kidney donors from total strangers. While in India there is no