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Yes, but don't many job applications have equivalent incentives for lying? - Have you ever been charged with a criminal offence? - Do you use recreational drug
by timv 10y ago
Yes, but don't many job applications have equivalent incentives for lying?
- Have you ever been charged with a criminal offence?
- Do you use recreational drugs?
Etc.
I don't think that the blood donation questionare is especially problematic on that regards.
- CamelCaseName 10y agoThe difference is who is harmed. A company may have to fire and replace a lying employee, so the shareholders lose some money, but a person contracting HIV from a bad blood transfusion is substantially more devastating.
- timv 10y agoSure, but as darawk argued in a sibling thread, that's not evidence that the poor are being exploited. As far as the "Low-Income Americans" from the article are concerned, all sorts of jobs give them an incentive to lie, why should donating blood be considered more exploitative because of it? The question of whether buying blood has a net positive public health benefit is a very real one, but it's unrelated to darawk's ancestor post arguing that selling blood is just another form of work.