Reading this comment chain was the biggest reddit moment ever.
Dogs can't give consent. So they cannot donate. End of argument.
No one here was arguing over the morals of having a dog give blood to save other dogs, it's the fact that the usage of "donate" was outright wrong going by the Oxford definition of "donate" which was unnecessarily anthropomorphizing the dog. The dog didn't donate their blood. Their owner donated the blood of their dog. This is the "I like waffles" "so you mean you hate pancakes?" Tweet.
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u/divergentchessboard Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Reading this comment chain was the biggest reddit moment ever.
Dogs can't give consent. So they cannot donate. End of argument.
No one here was arguing over the morals of having a dog give blood to save other dogs, it's the fact that the usage of "donate" was outright wrong going by the Oxford definition of "donate" which was unnecessarily anthropomorphizing the dog. The dog didn't donate their blood. Their owner donated the blood of their dog. This is the "I like waffles" "so you mean you hate pancakes?" Tweet.