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Taken to an extreme, everything is unhealthy. If you're going to say no to funding, you might as well say no to knowledge, tech, etc. - that has been gained fr
by nxzero 11y ago
Taken to an extreme, everything is unhealthy.
If you're going to say no to funding, you might as well say no to knowledge, tech, etc. - that has been gained from such funding.
Are you prepared to stop washing your hands? It's theorized that the modern practice of washing hands came from battle field surgery.
- throwanem 11y agoI don't disagree with you, exactly, but whoever theorizes that needs to study recent history; Lister was never a battlefield surgeon.
- nxzero 11y agoIt is my understanding that Lister used the Franco-Prussian War as the proving grounds for his research.
- themodelplumber 11y ago> Taken to an extreme, everything is unhealthy. This really needs context in order to be considered a relevant phrase. I've had close friends use it on me when I lost over 30% of my obese bodyweight on a diet. Others use it to effectively say, "healthy living is unhealthy," which is of course false. I believe such a phrase often comes from a place of fear, as do arguments like, "if you are going to stop doing A, you might as well stop doing B, which also comes from the same roots as A!" Points for imagination but humanity doesn't really hold such requirements for us.
- Retra 11y agoYou criticize taking things to an extreme and then immediately follow that up by taking things to some absurd extreme?
- nxzero 11y agoRight, exactly, to make the point it literally is unhealthy.