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I'm sorry I quite get your analogy, you're saying the problem is that he went to the hospital? I am not trying to justify the reaction to 9/11, but using it as
by rtpg 13y ago
I'm sorry I quite get your analogy, you're saying the problem is that he went to the hospital?
I am not trying to justify the reaction to 9/11, but using it as a reference point seems fine, just like the berlin wall being torn down is not in itself the event that ended the cold war, but is a turning point for things.
But your point about it being self-referentially important seems pretty valid.
- mikeash 13y agoI'm saying that the immune system overreacted, resulting in an allergic reaction that put the person in the hospital. Bee stings aren't all that harmful in normal people. But some people's immune systems decide to treat bee stings as if they were extremely dangerous, life-threatening events, and in those people, the reaction itself becomes an extremely dangerous, life-threatening event. If (and this is a huge if, of course) you could simply convince the immune system not to react so strongly to a bee sting, the threat would be gone. But instead, in this analogy, you have the people running the immune system arguing for a stronger reaction to bee stings, citing the terrible consequences of the last one as the reason for it.