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Whole lot of people who clearly felt personally targeted by this article lmao
It's okay to just say that you don't want to. You don't actually need to justify every single decision you make with systemic and social forces, or like, some weird kind of spite.
I mean some of us are LGBTQ+ and were explicitly forbidden to give blood for decades, and to my knowledge that only changed in May of 2023 in the US. Many people may not have got that message (including me until just now when I looked it up).
I am as well, and still am not eligible because of other reasons. Glancing through things, it seems that being on PrEP is also a disqualifier due to interference with HIV testing, which is unfortunate but also perfectly reasonable, so the real net effect is that men in monogamous relationships are eligible. That's still real progress though, and the current rules basically represent medical reality now instead of prejudice.
My point here is more against the people who are perfectly able to donate without any major inconvenience to themselves at all, but rather than simply honestly admitting that they don't want or care to (which is fine! You can't dedicate yourself to every cause in the world), they instead feel the need to justify it as some natural consequence of capitalism or our shitty healthcare system or whatnot, saying "Oh, I would donate, because of course I'm a good person, but because of the injustices of capitalism I'm actually entitled to payment and thus cannot participate in this oppressive system. Sorry grandma."
It's a bit maddening. It's perfectly fine to not want to commit any given selfless act, but just own up to it.