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If they beat women, they may not value them as people?

• jessaustin 7y ago
  IME it's not uncommon for successful surgeons to be fairly cold about the human body. Maybe that's not quite the same thing as "not valuing people", but ISTM it's on the same spectrum.
  • chessturk 7y ago
    It's arguable that domestic violence is less cold and more passionate than the characteristics you're describing. I understand there are cold sadists, but speaking to the archetype. Additionally, in the case of a bigot, the outcomes involving subjects of prejudice may be less meaningful to them even at a subconscious level. Coldness and bigotry can coexist, and certainly produce emergent results. Also, that the best outcome of using surgeon who has a history of domestic violence is that they're so disassociated from the world, that beating a loved one doesn't matter is a really strange argument. Perhaps the argument is there isn't a better way, but damn. I used to not be sure about robot surgeons, now I'm pretty convinced.
• K0balt 7y ago
  In my experience working with surgeons, while being a bad person is not a good predictor of skill, neither is being a good person. The most absolutely talented and innovative people in medicine are a pretty good mix of kind, empathetic, thoughtful people and BPD / narcissistic / sociopathic people.