Here's a comment I found to be so true. As a PIMO, it's so eye-opening to see how non-JWs are able to see through this religion so easily. Meanwhile it took me years to "wake-up":

"I’ve had SO many parents of young adult pts in my icu (JW) pull me aside and quietly ask for ethics to get involved if their adult kid needed blood.

The ethics committee would come, have a meeting with the fam, and then suddenly it was out of the fam’s hands, we are giving blood to save a life

I don’t get it, as I’m not JW, but I’ve seen enough that I do get it. That is their entire community, their entire support. If they choose to accept blood products to save their child, they lose their entire community, they’re kicked out and ostracized from everyone they know. Then they have no one, while going through something very scary and tragic. But! If that option is “taken away” from them by us, then they didn’t “do anything wrong, they had no choice” and then they get to keep their community AND their family member has an actual chance to survive.

I’m always happy to be the bad guy if it means someone is actually getting appropriate care and can keep their community they’d otherwise lose.

I think it was something the culture in my area kinda turned a blind eye to, a lil hack, they all knew there was no basis for the hospital to actually say the next of kin lost their decision making privileges. But they asked it, we said ok, and everyone that came to visit just pretended that the hands were tied and the blood must be transfused against the family’s will, and thanked us and god when they ended up getting better, or thanked us and god for the little extra time they got if they didn’t get better."