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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2015 13:34:31 GMT -5
Okay I think only a few of you will get me here but here goes...
We are living in a society that will only send our healthiest and fittest youth off to fight in combat and be killed for us, while doing everything in our power to ensure that the weakest and unhealthiest continue to live. From a strictly evolutionary perspective that can't be a good thing. on a macro level I agree. On a micro level I do not. What happens on the micro level becomes the macro level.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jan 9, 2015 13:34:52 GMT -5
on a macro level I agree. On a micro level I do not. What happens on the micro level becomes the macro level. you just blew my mind.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2015 14:49:29 GMT -5
Stephen Hawking would differ with you. From a personal point of view maybe. But I would be interested in his answer if you actually asked him. No, never asked. I do agree however that killing our most fit while saving the unhealthiest to breed (if possible), is a negative as far as evolution is concerned. For the physical attributes anyway.
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Post by Value Buy on Jan 9, 2015 15:03:49 GMT -5
Stephen Hawking would differ with you. From a personal point of view maybe. But I would be interested in his answer if you actually asked him. He was over seventeen when his disease became known.
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Post by ArchietheDragon on Jan 9, 2015 15:31:21 GMT -5
So I guess the real lesson in this story is not to go to the doctor for anything out of the ordinary until you are 18 only if you don't want to treat anything.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2015 15:59:39 GMT -5
So I guess the real lesson in this story is not to go to the doctor for anything out of the ordinary until you are 18 Or at least don't let the media catch wind of it.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 9, 2015 16:20:52 GMT -5
This is not suicide. She would not be taking her own life, cancer would. Chemo is an intrusive and painful procedure. The state has no business telling anyone they have to do it. Does Canada with socialized medicine just let them die in this situation, or put them on an ice flow in Hudson Bay? Ice floes in winter. Wolf packs in summer.
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Post by weltschmerz on Jan 9, 2015 16:26:50 GMT -5
Some people choose not to have treatment for diseases. It's not a large percentage but some do make that choice. Yes, those are the ones that come south of the border for proper treatment.... PROPER treatment? We have proper treatment. Those are the ones who want their cataract surgery yesterday.
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Post by AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP on Jan 9, 2015 18:28:40 GMT -5
Meanwhile...
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Post by zibazinski on Jan 9, 2015 20:17:56 GMT -5
Hands are tied. I was a GAL in Florida. I'm going to assume that other states have the same F'd up rules. That's why we have dead kids, over and over again. When the focus, if ever, becomes the safety of the child, then things will change. This is why I would only work with older kids who had been removed from their "parents."
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