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  • I mean..... If you're a giant piece of shit there's been a lot to celebrate this year.

    Congress has been dog shit as always, but the courts have significantly expanded the power of the executive and seem as though they are going to continue to do so. Once the justices got away with basically ignoring the concept of precedent with roe vs wade they've basically been handing down vibes based rulings since.

    It's going to be interesting to see how the current court stands by their rulings if we ever get anyone slightly left of George Bush back in the White House.

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  • Yeah, it's getting hard to find people willing to stay in family medicine. Specialists just end up earning so much more that it's almost financially irresponsible to not do a fellowship if you can.

    I will say that one of the good things about medicine no longer being super lucrative is that it's no longer really attractive to people who are interested in the field just for the money. It's a lot easier and more profitable to just get an MBA, or go into finance if you just want to make money.

    Though that fact has created some of the worst people in the world imo.... There's a subset of physicians who end up deciding they hate patient care and end up going back to school for their MBA to become hospital administrators.

  • Hmm .. maybe you're right in that it's a matter of degrees. To me, there's a minimum amount of empathy that people should have, and below that I think they're crazy.

    Psychology is not really a hard science, there is no real minimum or maximum requirements needed for a diagnosis. It's all subjective to how a patient interacts and behaves compared to the social normative.

    To me, it still takes a crazy mind to look at a breathing mammal and straight up murder it.

    Eh, I guess it just depends on your ethical construct. I'm mostly a vegetarian because of environmental reasons, that and I think that industrialized farming is morally abhorrent. I would much rather hunt, kill, and consume a deer than go to a Wendy's. There's a lot less suffering involved in virtually all hunting than just about any industrialized farm.

  • Man..... We need to start contacting these shithead's local bishops and petition them for excommunication. Honestly not a good look for the Catholic church to be primarily associated with pedophillia and neo-nazi. Maybe the new pope being from Burger Land will motivate them to clean up their American franchise?

  • Lol, I'm sure you do.... you're just being purposely obtuse. Hunters do not hunt with intent to cause undue suffering to animals. With the animal harm associated with psychopathy the suffering is the express intent of the harm, not a byproduct of it.

    If hunting was actually correlated with psychopathy then we'd be in a bit of a pickle, considering that we evolved from hunting and gathering societies.

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  • still find it hard to sympathize with the med school debt. Like many homeowners were paying off their debt for quite a while and came out way ahead.

    It's yet to play out really. The drastic change in rate of reward vs debt is relatively new, and the debt to pay ratio is getting worse and worse, at least outside of specialties. There are older physicians who are still practicing that are making bank, but that doesn't really guarantee the younger physicians are going to be in the same place when they get that age.

    The management and finance sectors of healthcare are now taking the lion's share of profit, and less and less physicians are owning their own practices.

    I'm not saying they aren't going to be financially comfortable, but it wouldn't surprise me if most newer physicians end up just being upper middle class instead of "rich or wealthy".

  • So then what are you arguing against then? You agree with me that lawlessness is not the answer. People in this thread shouldn't be condoning lawless behavior.

    I don't particularly care about "lawlessness", as I said the law does not dictate morality. Just because I wouldn't do something doesn't mean I have the right to admonish others doing it.

    That's a thread you don't want to pull buddy.

    Lol, sure......

    Ahhh - post-modern "there is no truth" BS. No. My opinion here is definitely more moral and justified.

    Based on?

    It's not simply my opinion either - it's the conclusion of many enlightenment philosophers, scholars and legal minds. It's the basis for the modern liberal democracy legal system that concentrates the power to punish in the government to provide for a stable society.

    Ahh, yes..... The US legal system, widely known for being non biased and clearly has never been used to systemically repress entire segments of underprivileged society. The perfect system that has executed hundreds of innocent men.......

    Many people are saying it.... Must be true, no reason to actually argue your point on how this specific case is immoral. Why offer an actual argument when you can just appeal to authority and virtue signal instead?

  • "I'm not saying people "should feel bad" about it I'm saying they shouldn't be advocating"

    Interesting rephrasing considering I already said "In my personal opinion it’s not something I would condone"....

    And as it happens - I have a very good idea of what it would feel like. You don't know me.

    I'm sure you know exactly how it feels to have your friends/family deliberately attacked in a mass casualty event by a drunk driver at a festival.......

    Again, your feelings and opinions are just that.... opinions. Your opinions are not more morally or ethically superior to anyone's else's just because you believe in them. Laws do not dictate morality or reality and are just as flawed as any other social construct.

  • If the necklace impeded blood flow or even put a lot of strain on his circulatory system then it could have caused his heart attacks.

    Sounds like it wasn't him being pulled towards the machine that killed him, it was being pinned against the machine for a prolonged period of time.

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  • Eh..... It kind of depends on if they paid for medical school or their parents paid for medical school.

    Most doctors don't really start making a decent living until they're in their mid 30s, and most of that goes to paying back loans. Medicine does not pay what it used to, and residencies are still basically a form of slavery.

  • Or just principles that are different from your own ethical construct. I'm no more defending the gunman than you are defending the driver, I'm just correcting your critique.

    In my personal opinion it's not something I would condone, I'm also not going to lose any sleep over it. Tbh I don't know how violent I would feel if some drunk loser ran over any of my loved ones, and I don't think you really know either despite all your moral grandstanding.

  • Go to Wendy's

    Don't really see the difference between going to Wendy's to eat meat and hunting for meat. Well besides the fact that industrialized farming practices are less ethical.

    Bring back the native big cats

    We no longer have the same ecology that used to be able to support big cats and wolves, at least in North America. Native Americans spent generations changing the environment to make deer over plentiful. Add that to the destruction of nearly all old forest as European settlers moved west, and it makes it infeasible to utilize apex predators to control the population of deer in the vast majority of north America.

  • It's no different than shooting animals with a gun (proper or airsoft or whatever), which i think any sensible person would agree should bar you from owning guns.

    I think there's quite a big difference between senselessly running over an animal and shooting one with a gun. I mean hunting for food and animal population control are kinda necessary in a lot of situations, while running over an animal isn't.

  • Lol, your rebuttal was that journalists shouldn't be held to any sort of standard. My whole point was predicated on the belief that journalism should be held to a high standard. Why would your appeal shift my position? It was basically the equivalent of a "not uhh".