Point & Glick

I remem­ber when he was arrested.

An ortho­dox man who bro­kered deals between peo­ple who needed organ trans­plants but had years to wait on the offi­cial list and peo­ple who were will­ing to donate the needed organs.

Now Levy Izhak Rosen­baum has pled guilty to organ trafficking.

He tried to do some­thing he thought would help peo­ple. He, quite obvi­ously, broke the law in doing so.

My only ques­tion about this case is how the crime is being depicted. Art Caplan, a co-chairman of a United Nations task force on organ traf­fick­ing, stated that it’s one of the “most heinous crimes against another human being.”

Really? What exactly has he done that is “against another human being”?
Why are the media out­lets using the term “organ theft”?

I know noth­ing of Rosen­baum, it’s pos­si­ble that he is every inch the shad­owy under­world char­ac­ter that the U.S Attor­ney and the media is mak­ing him out to be. But he might not be.

Agree or dis­agree with the law, Rosenbaum broke it. But why does the fact that he is guilty of a crime instantly trans­mute his actions into some­thing evil and his moti­va­tions into some­thing sin­is­ter?
There are plenty of crimes that peo­ple com­mit with the best of intentions.