Blood for Sale 1. Is Sol Levin running a business “just like any other business,” or is his company open to moral criticism? Defend your answer by appeal to moral principle. Sol Levin is running a business like any other business person in the world. However, I think the type of business he is in open to moral criticism. I found it hard to make the same decisions. I do not have it in me to buy blood at a quarter and sell it for a dollar. In the world I live in, blood is life and you give the life for free. If I were firefighter, I would pledge to lay my life for another. Thus this idea is foreign to me. 2. Did plasma international strike a fair bargain with the West Africans who supplied their blood to the company? Or is plasma guilty of exploiting them in some way? Plasma international purchased blood from poor South African people for fifteen cents to the pint. They then sold it here in the United States for up to twenty five dollars per pint. I believe it absolutely is the exploitation of poor people to further the success of a few. A fair market value could have been paid at the rate it would have been paid in the United States. 3. What are the contrasting ideals of the British and U.S. blood systems? Which system, in your opinion, better promotes human freedom and respect for people? Which system better promotes the supply of blood? In the United States blood can be bought and sold in The United Kingdom it is not. I think that the United Kingdom model it promotes the actual donor giving to someone in the true sense of the word. People have better sense of fulfillment. People feel free to give and