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And I'll assume good faith on your part and shoot this right back. If someone says "being a physician is the highest calling yada yada", would it be fair and th
by perihelions 2y ago
And I'll assume good faith on your part and shoot this right back. If someone says "being a physician is the highest calling yada yada", would it be fair and thoughtful rebuttal to say, well, some people aren't capable of becoming medical doctors, it is exclusionary? It's an over-worn stereotype–too many people love doctors, it's passé? It's an unequal discrimination which elevates some career professions over different ones, which is inequitable?
Is it problematic to express adoration for the profession of doctors?
These types of expressions can be interpreted without being literally construed and deconstructed to atoms. It's *okay* for people to express positive sentiments about things—it's not necessary to put those sentiments under an electron microscope and describe their internal atomic-level contradictions. Because, we live in pleasenter world if people can freely express positive sentiments about things all the time, without too much worrying about "but what about..."
- cthalupa 2y agoYou can express adoration for motherhood or doctors without stating that anyone not doing those things isn't achieving their highest calling. It's quite simple to avoid this - just recognize that the highest calling of anyone is a personal and subjective matter and trying to ascribe absolute value to it is silly. Talk about your own highest calling, not others.
- amne 2y agoWell said except, biologically, giving birth is the highest calling and only women can give natural birth. Yet!