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You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that bloo
by aeturnum 10y ago
You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood.
- djrogers 10y ago> You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood. Yes, that'd be due to the fact that we see humans as equals, and the same is not true for humans and horseshoe crabs.
- mirimir 10y agoWell, it's OK if it's voluntary. But that gets murky for prisoners, who arguably can't freely decline.
- maxerickson 10y agoEven setting aside statistics about various communicable diseases, prejudice would make use of prisoner blood a tenuous thing. (I mean beliefs about prisoners being "bad" or "tainted" or whatever and people not wanting to receive their blood)
- throwanem 10y agoFew whole-blood transfusions occur in a setting where the patient can inquire in detail as to provenance.
- maxerickson 10y agoOf course. That doesn't mean people wouldn't react to news about blood being collected in prisons.
- mirimir 10y agoWell, it is a bad idea, for both human-rights and health reasons.[0,1] 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_blood_scandal_(United_Kingdom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_blood_scandal_(United_... 2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_8:_The_Arkansas_Prison_Blood_Scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_8:_The_Arkansas_Prison_...