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Bone marrow drives are a textbook case of raging Scope Insensitivity.
Such campaigns invest tremendous money and effort in testing potential donors for one recipient.
Some Examples,
Luckily, the test results go into a database allowing donors to give to any recipient.
I wouldn't invest the effort to be tested for one person, unless I knew them personally; but I would do so, and did, for any of the thousands who might need it. According to the usual way of thinking, admitting to the first part of that sentence shows that I am callous to the suffering of others.
I think most bone marrow drives are self-aware enough to realize this. I'm sure I've heard the line "even if you can't help X, you may be able to help someone else," and the like enough from this sort of charity.
The recent campaign to find a donor for Amit Gupta also promoted South Asians giving bone marrow in general, due to the difficulty of finding South Asian matches. In some respects it worked against cultural narratives in that community that are afraid or ignorant about the bone marrow transplant process.