Spread rumors among the Latino community "that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants."
That's very ironic. In Niven's "future history," solving the immunological problems associated of organ transplantation leads to a highly dystopian period during which pretty much every crime (up to, and including, repeatedly failing to pay parking tickets) is punished with death, in order to keep the state-managed organ banks full (near-immortality being the bribe to support totalitarianism).
Niven is, in my opinion, very much a "gadget" or a "scientific mystery" author -- his social commentary is sophomoric, and I think he's influenced by the reactionary Pournelle.
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That's very ironic. In Niven's "future history," solving the immunological problems associated of organ transplantation leads to a highly dystopian period during which pretty much every crime (up to, and including, repeatedly failing to pay parking tickets) is punished with death, in order to keep the state-managed organ banks full (near-immortality being the bribe to support totalitarianism).
Niven is, in my opinion, very much a "gadget" or a "scientific mystery" author -- his social commentary is sophomoric, and I think he's influenced by the reactionary Pournelle.