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significant = n>0

tyre 6y ago
That's not the measure of significance. If that's the measure of significance, we should never do anything ever. There are risks in cars, airplanes, shaving getting out of bed, not getting out of bed, eating too much or too little, etc. People choke on food occasionally. Should we not eat? No, that's silly.
- cameronbrown 6y ago
  I mean, it's important to me. Enough people will be thinking the same thing.
- M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
  All of those are self-induced, unlike someone harvesting your organs such as the example story that the other commenter posted. Additionally, I tend to think that doctors do not serve our best interest and instead typically follow common or outdated practices. re: newborn circumcision, which I see as one of the most heinous acts that we still perform in the United States and allow in Europe because of ‘religious tolerance’ I can anticipate being called an antivaxxer, so I want to answer that as well. I’m not an antivaxxer by any means, but I also don’t think pumping your child with at least 7 doses of pathogens before they’re 6 months out isn’t a good thing either. I’d prefer to wait until they’re a bit older or to have longer wait times between each shot. I think this is something that also doesn’t get enough discourse because we hail doctors as all-knowing rather than viewing them with the same skepticism as other fields. Just as a side note, those who score highest on graduate exams such as the GRE are the physicists and mathematicians. Doctors are quite low. It may suggest something about their innate ability, yet we still lionize them.
- filoleg 6y ago
  All of those things you listed do not deterministically kill you as soon as things go wrong. Plenty of people survive car crashes, shaving, eating too much or too little. Even people who accidentally choke on food survive in a lot of cases. Plus, people do those things in order to either live (eating) or to enhance their life experience (shaving, airplanes). I am yet to hear of someone surviving after their heart or liver was removed for donation from their body. And I am also yet to hear of anyone donating their organs in hopes of enhancing their life experience.

significant = n>0

tyre 6y ago

That's not the measure of significance. If that's the measure of significance, we should never do anything ever. There are risks in cars, airplanes, shaving getting out of bed, not getting out of bed, eating too much or too little, etc. People choke on food occasionally. Should we not eat? No, that's silly.

cameronbrown 6y ago
I mean, it's important to me. Enough people will be thinking the same thing.
M5x7wI3CmbEem10 6y ago
All of those are self-induced, unlike someone harvesting your organs such as the example story that the other commenter posted. Additionally, I tend to think that doctors do not serve our best interest and instead typically follow common or outdated practices. re: newborn circumcision, which I see as one of the most heinous acts that we still perform in the United States and allow in Europe because of ‘religious tolerance’ I can anticipate being called an antivaxxer, so I want to answer that as well. I’m not an antivaxxer by any means, but I also don’t think pumping your child with at least 7 doses of pathogens before they’re 6 months out isn’t a good thing either. I’d prefer to wait until they’re a bit older or to have longer wait times between each shot. I think this is something that also doesn’t get enough discourse because we hail doctors as all-knowing rather than viewing them with the same skepticism as other fields. Just as a side note, those who score highest on graduate exams such as the GRE are the physicists and mathematicians. Doctors are quite low. It may suggest something about their innate ability, yet we still lionize them.
filoleg 6y ago
All of those things you listed do not deterministically kill you as soon as things go wrong. Plenty of people survive car crashes, shaving, eating too much or too little. Even people who accidentally choke on food survive in a lot of cases. Plus, people do those things in order to either live (eating) or to enhance their life experience (shaving, airplanes). I am yet to hear of someone surviving after their heart or liver was removed for donation from their body. And I am also yet to hear of anyone donating their organs in hopes of enhancing their life experience.