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This right here. Medicine is not bad in general. Mother Nature is a wicked mistress. Pain and suffering are her defaults, and glimmers of happiness fleeting. M
by Nifty3929 1y ago
This right here. Medicine is not bad in general. Mother Nature is a wicked mistress. Pain and suffering are her defaults, and glimmers of happiness fleeting.
Modern technology and medicine in particular have made our lives better and longer in ways our near ancestors could not have dreamed of or hoped for.
It's not hard to find counterexamples of course: opioid addiction, climate change, etc. But on balance we're a hellava lot better off now than 50 or 500 years ago.
Nice to use a bit less anesthesia for faster/better recovery and money savings. But for goodness sake - let's not go TOO far down that path.
- thelaxiankey2 1y agoDo notice that the comments about 'pain and suffering are mother nature's defaults' have very little to do with anything else you said, or with the discussion more broadly. I think these sorts of things are bad internet hygiene and promote an actively depressive state of mind. They can be memetic concepts, and should be treated with care. If you do actually feel this way about your own life, I'd encourage you to seek some kind of help. And besides, there's nothing natural about surgery... I think the rest of what you're saying is fairly accurate, though.