Serious question - has anyone actually looked into this? Like, I literally donated blood -all the time- in California and I've never heard anything about anyone getting some weird mutated mutation thingy (excuse me inability to use Science words) after getting a blood transfusion. Lor, too, and no one ever turned green or anything. And I'm pretty sure something weird happening to someone after a blood transfusion would make the news.
Other than bigotry, what's the excuse? If our mutation doesn't effect our blood, then what harm will it do to a regular person? And if we're going to go down the road of "mutants can't donate to regular people" then we'd also have to address "Can mutants with different mutations donate to each other if there's actually an effect?"
You seem smarter than me in the whole biology thing, and I think you already know the answer to that last one. It's BS. If I donate blood to Q, he's not going to suddenly blow up. If I donate to blood to a non-mutant, then... what? Presumably the same thing, because my mutation isn't in my blood, it's in my... I'll get back to you on that one because I'm not entirely sure myself.
If the mutation effects the mutant's blood - like, idk, they have poison blood or something, is that a thing? - then sure, okay, they probably shouldn't be donating to anyone, mutant or not. If they just have pointy bits or a tail then why not? They're not going to pass on their tail to whoever gets their blood.
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Date: 2018-05-03 08:44 pm (UTC)Serious question - has anyone actually looked into this? Like, I literally donated blood -all the time- in California and I've never heard anything about anyone getting some weird mutated mutation thingy (excuse me inability to use Science words) after getting a blood transfusion. Lor, too, and no one ever turned green or anything. And I'm pretty sure something weird happening to someone after a blood transfusion would make the news.
Other than bigotry, what's the excuse? If our mutation doesn't effect our blood, then what harm will it do to a regular person? And if we're going to go down the road of "mutants can't donate to regular people" then we'd also have to address "Can mutants with different mutations donate to each other if there's actually an effect?"
You seem smarter than me in the whole biology thing, and I think you already know the answer to that last one. It's BS. If I donate blood to Q, he's not going to suddenly blow up. If I donate to blood to a non-mutant, then... what? Presumably the same thing, because my mutation isn't in my blood, it's in my... I'll get back to you on that one because I'm not entirely sure myself.
If the mutation effects the mutant's blood - like, idk, they have poison blood or something, is that a thing? - then sure, okay, they probably shouldn't be donating to anyone, mutant or not. If they just have pointy bits or a tail then why not? They're not going to pass on their tail to whoever gets their blood.