Comment by amarant
5 days ago
>and I think it's unequivocally a bad thing that we keep thinking we know better and interfering with it.
I'll believe you actually hold this opinion after you die from an entirely curable decease. Until then I'll assume you actually think we do know better and that our interfering with, for example, bacterial infections, is actually a good thing.
Not to tell you what you think, but this is one of those opinions people seem to think they hold until it's phrased in a way that demonstrates the cost of the idea to them.
Just the fact that you survived long enough to type this comment into HN tells me it's highly unlikely medicine hasn't saved your life at least once already. And if it hasn't, it will.
I can count 5 times of the top of my head that I would've died if not for modern medicine (usually antibiotics, but also one life saving surgery). I would've been rendered a cripple a few times over too!
>I'll believe you actually hold this opinion after you die from an entirely curable decease.
what does that have to do with anything?
narcissism and self importance are adaptive features we use to propel our genes into the future but that doesn't mean anybody else should care or help us, they are trying to look out for their own offspring
I'm talking about public policy, not your or my personal feelings. I think public policy should focus on creating the strongest possible tribe for the future.
when I hear people here whinge on the daily about how health care should be free for everybody, I yawn. No matter what line item something is in the budget, I want to hear "what do you think we should say "no" to? We can never buy all of everything, there are always tradeoffs, and if you aren't willing to announce your tradeoffs, you aren't serious.
what feelgood items will you say no to?
oh, and your other challenge, you would have been closer to the mark if you said "fsckboy, the only way you could hold that opinion is if you have been so remarkably healthy and accident free your entire life that it doesn't even make sense to you the degree to which other people want to endlessly talk about their personal and family frailties" nobody has ever needed to save my life, and i'm old now so nobody should care. Neither one of my parents ever took a single day off of work for illness.