It’s a more complex issue than you might think…
A couple friends (both gay) were recently quibbling with each other over the merits of blood banks not allowing homosexual donors. They argued between balancing the logic of the motive (numbers of ineligibles due to lifestyle vs. cons of such a ban) but the whole thing made me wonder not about something silly and irrelevant as all that nonsense, but rather about something more serious, timely and pertinent to today’s society: Should vampires be allowed to donate blood?
I get that the question of a persons risky sexual behavior that might affect their blood quality has to at very least come into question on some level regardless of the final decision but what if the person is a vampire? Or is that improper because once the conversion to undead begins, one is no longer a “person”? A side discussion for another time, but irrelevant to this subject since the human fetus is not legally a person in America and taking its stem cells to benefit full-humans is widely encouraged, so it would be hypocritical to deny the perfectly fine blood stuffs of one non-person over another.
In a fair society that values and respects the rights of the individual regardless of lifestyle and who seeks to help those in need of blood, the question must be asked and examined.
Initially you’d probably say “of course not”, but isn’t that really just your anti-Vampire bias dictating policy? Is there any actual proof that vampire blood is any worse than anyone else’s? Further: Such bigotry is worse than banning someone who was born with a proclivity towards a lifestyle that statistically may make their blood too dangerous to accept – with vampires you’re literally “blaming the victim” since no one is born a vampire and less than .5% choose to become one.
These people were attacked, through no fault of their own and infected with Vampirism or whatever and here you are, with no medical data to support your knee-jerk fear of what you don’t understand, trying to ban them from helping society. Bigot.
Other blood considered to be contaminated is ineligible for donation but without hard data on the life juice of the undead, how can one claim a blanket ban is not discrimination? Vampires are immortal so how do you know that their blood isn’t actually a Human Growth Hormone style supplement or something? The only side effects we can be reasonably sure might occur would be an aversion to garlic, which is a blood cleanser that causes negative reactions in Vampire hosts.
I know that not all species of vampires have blood in their veins, but how long until that is the case? Within seconds of the vampiric infection, you can’t just expunge 100% of your blood, so it is logical to assume that it would take weeks or months for all blood to leave your system. What about that interim time? Its not as easy as you may think because there is no definitive evidence that vampire blood is infection. Rather, like their undead cousins the zombie: It is vampire saliva – delivered through a bite, that spreads the virus.
So wtf NOW motherfuckers? Vampire rights?
Think about it.
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