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A religious group that believes all disease is God's handiwork and people sin when they try to undo it can grind all medicine to a halt. Everything has a side e
by quantified 4y ago
A religious group that believes all disease is God's handiwork and people sin when they try to undo it can grind all medicine to a halt. Everything has a side effect that harms someone, even penicillin which encourages sex since it allowed syphilis to be cured.
- rayiner 4y ago[flagged]
- tonymillion 4y agoWhat the fuck does that statement mean? Literally everything will kill a human in high enough concentrations. So will nothing on a long enough time frame.
- kmos17 4y agoWhat is a complete human is the women carrying fetuses, they are human beings with bodily autonomy and the ability to feel and reason. A fetus is very far from a complete human.
- rayiner 4y ago[flagged]
- quantified 4y ago"Development" means it's not complete, doesn't it? And not all the pieces are there yet, see [https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/7247-fetal-development-stages-of-growth https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/7247-fetal-de...]
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- dctoedt 4y ago> “Bodily autonomy” is not a scientific concept, it’s a philosophical one. It does not negate what a fetus is scientifically. Limiting the "what is a complete human" inquiry to the realm of genetics is itself a philosophical concept.
- brokenmachine 4y agoI'm not too worried if that group practices what they preach and forgo all modern medicine. Also modern food engineering. Enjoy your easily preventable deaths, losers! But none of them actually practice what they preach... they just pick and choose when it suits... That is the gospel truth, but I'll choose to interpret that as a metaphor...