In February, one day after donating my blood, I ran into this incredibly rude jerk. Too much to go into, but I realised that he could possibly benefit from my blood donation.
This was not acceptable. I was already scheduled to donate platelets the following Tuesday.
Thanks to this turkey I called the Blood Bank and told them to take me off the donor list forever. They asked why, I told them. They said they would probably have done the same thing I had done that got me such a rude encounter.
Anyway, thank you, Rude Stranger. Just the thought that you or your family might live because of my blood is unacceptable.
So on the off chance that someone who was rude to you might benefit, you are going to make sure that no one else ever benefits for the rest of your life. . . ?
What if my mom could benefit from your donation. She’s one of the nicest people on earth. Lot’s of people would be devastated if she died because of a blood shortage. What if one of your friends needed blood?
Giving blood is one of the greatest acts of charity that you could do. Letting him stop you from doing that has given him too much power over your life.
Lindsay went into more detail over in General Questions in the thread about selling ‘body parts/commodities’. I’d post a link, but I don’t know how to do that.
Lindsay, are you going to stop paying your taxes because there are rude people on welfare who might benefit from them? Or rude people who drive down the city streets your taxes maintain? Will you refuse to pay sales tax at the store for the same reason?
Speaking of stores, perhaps the rude man works at one. If you shopped at that store, you’d be helping to pay his wages. But you don’t know what store he works at, do you? So you’d be better off just not shopping at all, right?
You know, I usually try to keep my posts fairly calm, rational, and non-confrontational. However, after reading your whiny, irrational, greedy posts on three different threads in GQ; and now coming here hoping for a few quick laughs on “Why Me God? WHY ME?” or some such I have had my fill of you. And this being the pit. . . . ahem
SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU SMALL-MINDED, GREEDY, HATE FILLED REPREHENSIBLE EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN BEING
Your shallow, self-centered attitude about matters of life and death that could ACTUALLy help some people, at no cost whatsoever to you, sickens me.
I hope, no I’m an atheist but still, I PRAY that after you die, some of those so-called “ghouls” that you post second, and third hand ‘evidence’ about strip you absolutely clean of every vital organ. I hope whatever working bits of you are transplanted into someone infinitely more worthy of them than you could ever be. And then I hope that person GIVES BLOOD!!! . . . Using you heart. . . Just to retroactively piss you off!!!
I say again SHUT THE HELL UP, OR AT LEAST KEEP IT TO ONE FREAKIN’ THREAD!!!
Lindsay, are you planning on cutting out all favors to strangers based on this logic. They could always be jerks. My advice to you is to hide as far from civilizzation as you can possibly get. No, don’t worry about the rest of us, we’ll get along just fine. But you’d better hurry, you might accidentally do something that would be beneficial to a jerk. Bye-bye.
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” - Adam Smith
“Every time I breathe I notice that air leaves my body and goes into the room where rude people might be able to breathe in some of “my” air. That’s it, I’m never exhaling again.”
Lindsay has explained that the blood donationts were stopped because someone was exceedingly rude to her. Now, on the surface, all of you seem to be right in attacking this decision. However, I can imagine a scenario in which this might be an acceptable move. Let’s say that you had just given blood and were on you way home, when you were approached by som slimebag. Let’s further say that this slimebag were to brutally assault you and possibly to molest you. In the process of doing this, it becomes clear that it will be impossible to get any satisfactoin from him through the criminal justice system. If that were the case, I can imagine that you might form an irrational decision to do whatever might be in your power to “get even” with him. Sure it’s an irrational decision to discontinue donationg blood when so many people who are not him are more likely to receive the donation than he is. But were talking about an incident which would leave you scarred for life, so perhaps it’s not that bad.
So, Lindsay, is this what happened? If it is then I forgive you. If it is not, then plese enlighten us as to why an otherwise rational person would make such an irrational decision.
“All men spoke of his prowess…except for a couple of people in his home village who though he was a liar, and quite a lot of other people who had never really heard of him.” -Terry Prachett - The Light Fantastic
I would expect that a some of the background for Lindsay’s reactions to organ donation may be explained in this thread: Your organs get taken without permission.
It frustrates the hell out of me when people make such a big deal out of the negative because they don’t have the eyes to take the positive for what’s it worth. Which is SOOO much more than one asshole on the street.
Next time somebody puts money in your meter, or opens the door for you, stop and think about it. Think about how much more deserving they are in comparison to how undeserving mr. shoppingcartman is.
I hope you’ll change your mind.
“Organs gross me out. That’s organs, not orgasms.”
-the wallster
So, let me get this straight: Lindsay’s philosphy of life
If a person is rude, that person deserves to die.
Never do anything that might benefit someone who has ever been rude.
Find a wallet on the sidewalk? Keep it, it might belong to a rude person.
Run across a lost child? Ignore him/her, he/she might be rude or have rude parents.
While driving, never give anyone the right of way, they might be rude people. Just run down possibly-rude pedestrians in the crosswalks.
Don’t ever learn CPR, you might be tempted to use it on someone, and that person might once have been rude to someone else.
Might as well abolish the field of medicine altogether. Those doctors and nurses might save the life of a rude person.
Why not just advocate the death penalty as a suitable punishment for rudeness and be done with it?
Well, I must be the illitarate one here because, even though I read it 3 times, I cannot understand the story at all. Its really confusing. Can someone explain it? Well, even though it didnt really make any sense to me, I can tell that she defitinly is very bitter for some reason, from the reactions from others and her previous posts. Jeez, girl, just let out your feelings and tell us whats wrong!
Rosethorn:
Lindsay donated blood, then went shopping and developed chest pains. She used a shopping cart that she found on the sidewalk to get her purchases home.
A “young Oaf”, perhaps an employee of the store, perhaps merely someone who thought she was stealing a shopping cart and dislikes thieves, presumably completely unaware of the fact that she was in any sort of pain or had given blood, yelled at her.
Because of this, Lindsay decided that (1) the young man and all his family were unworthy to be given blood if needed and (2) by extension, so was anyone else.
Speaking as someone who hasn’t given blood, for a variety of reasons, I would not criticise the OP for not giving blood. But the reasoning leading to this decision is simply absurd. If the OP said that homosexuality should be allowed because it keeps homosexuals from reproducing, the conclusion would be something I agree with, but the reasoning would be simply wrong on many counts. Basically, I have nothing against Lindsay’s actions, but s/he is still an idiot for the thinking that led to them.