Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones

Re:Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones by simias on Thursday July 13, 2017 @07:47AM (#14760491)

Rich people may think twice about injecting "shady" blood into their veins though. I mean, many seem fine to do it with intravenous drugs but at least you won't find AIDS-laced heroin.

I think it might make more sense for super rich people to pay people directly to give them their blood, which is morally questionable but maybe not particularly worse than, say, paying for a surrogate mother? It sounds a lot less traumatizing at least, both physically and psychologically. After all many people do donate their blood for free several times a year.

I'm pretty sure you could convince many young people to give up some of their blood for a pretty cheap price actually. No need to resort to kidnapping and slave farms.

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Re:Blood from young animals can revitalise old ones by FungalRaincloud on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:29AM (#14760688)

I don't think there's any reason one could not lace heroin with AIDS, it just would not reflect well on a dealer. That said, it would likely require intent (or really bizarre circumstances). With blood, it could much more easily happen, you're right.

Many young people already do give up their blood for a pretty cheap price, so I don't think there's any reason for this to become a black market thing.

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