05-29-2007, 03:32 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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need a kidney? just win this reality TV show
guess it was just a matter of time
just furthing my opinion that all reality TV is pure garbage
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05-29-2007, 03:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Holy hell...so its come to this?
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05-29-2007, 03:38 PM
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Wow. So how would the final decision of the show go?
"Well she has narrowed it down to the final three, and the winner is.....Jack! Congratulations you get a new kidney and get to live! The rest of you, we are sorry, but don't worry you'll get some lovely parting gifts and the home version."
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05-29-2007, 03:41 PM
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Sleazy Banker
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Cold Lake Alberta Canada
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oh for crying out loud. how much lower can it go?
reminds me of a movie, with Arnold, I think it was called The Runner. and even thats tame compared to this
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05-29-2007, 03:57 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sample00
oh for crying out loud. how much lower can it go?
reminds me of a movie, with Arnold, I think it was called The Runner. and even thats tame compared to this
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The Running Man.
And I still fully expect that type of show to surface at some point. This kinda crap just sets the stage.
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05-29-2007, 03:59 PM
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Funny you should bring that up sample, I recall being in grade 10 when the first of survivors and American idols where coming my social teacher at the time (who was on of the better teachers I have ever had) made us have this discussion he told us that our society will constantly push the limitless of ethics and eventually reality T.V. won’t pertain to winning cash prizes but just staying alive…he used that movie The Running Man as an example…
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05-29-2007, 04:00 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: London, Ontario
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I weep for humanity.
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05-29-2007, 04:04 PM
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Retired
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Pacific Ocean
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After reading the Japanese novel Battle Royale - I told my wife that I could see it becoming a reality in the next ten years - looks like that time is closely approaching 
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05-29-2007, 04:07 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Anything for ratings. The sad thing is it will probably get ratings, spawning a bunch more imitators.
The short story The Running Man (by Steven King under the pseudoname Richard Backman) was based on was better than the movie. And wasn't there another movie like this recently, except it took place on a island?
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05-29-2007, 04:25 PM
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Retired
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Ever consider that maybe the entire point of this little exercise is to infact disgust people into signing their organ donar cards?
Want this show off the air? Want to make sure these people don't have to live like this and accept an invitation to a reality TV show in order to try to live?
Well, donate those organs next time, kiddies.
(But Chances are this is entirely for money/ratings).
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05-29-2007, 04:36 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
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Is it legal to sell human organs for transplant?
This just appears to be a way around the legalities, but it amounts to the same thing. A person is being paid to donate her organ to another person.
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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05-29-2007, 04:40 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Is it legal to sell human organs for transplant?
This just appears to be a way around the legalities, but it amounts to the same thing. A person is being paid to donate her organ to another person.
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From the article
A spokeswoman for BNN said that there could be no guarantees the donation would actually be made, "but the intention is" Lisa's donation would be carried out before she died.
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There also was doubt whether Lisa's organs could be donated at all because it might spread her cancer, he said.
"So it's very possible that in practical terms we're not talking about anything here, because it's possible this transplant can't take place," he said.
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05-29-2007, 04:48 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaramonLS
(But Chances are this is entirely for money/ratings).
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It totally is, look at who the producers are. I get what you are saying. Right idea but in my opinon, very poor execution.
Last edited by GoinAllTheWay; 05-29-2007 at 04:54 PM.
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