Child dies due to faith healing; parents get 6 months of jail time

[HoreTore]

What if they died because of the invasiveness of "modern medicine"? That sort of perspective cuts both ways.

This kid would never have died if she was taken to a hospital; diabetes is easily treatable.

Anyway, I don't understand your question. Do you believe that because doctors occasionally makes mistakes and those mistakes result in deaths, that doctors are unimportant and we should throw away modern medicine...?

Find some statistics on life expectancy during the times of "pray the ill away" and compare them with those we have now.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

This kid would never have died if she was taken to a hospital; diabetes is easily treatable.

Anyway, I don't understand your question. Do you believe that because doctors occasionally makes mistakes and those mistakes result in deaths, that doctors are unimportant and we should throw away modern medicine...?

Find some statistics on life expectancy during the times of "pray the ill away" and compare them with those we have now.

Read up on Paradigms, then you'll understand my point.

[HoreTore]

So if you bring your kids to a hospital, the doctors perform a procedure they say is necessary, and that procedure ends up killing the child, then you're guilty of murder?

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Nope. Doctors are the best we've got. Nothing else comes even remotely close in terms of success, and it's certainly better than any make-believe stuff, like "applejuice is all mah baby needs!!". They don't succeed all the time, but it's the most we can do.

Read up on Paradigms, then you'll understand my point.

I have little time for fables.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

I have little time for fables.

So you don't know what a Paradigm Shift is, then?

[HoreTore]

So you don't know what a Paradigm Shift is, then?

You said "Paradigm". There are about a billion things named "Paradigm" in the world, and yes, it's also another word for "fable".

Anyway, I really don't care. I know you're just trying to be clever, but that's the very thing making me very uninterested.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

You said "Paradigm". There are about a billion things named "Paradigm" in the world, and yes, it's also another word for "fable".

Anyway, I really don't care. I know you're just trying to be clever, but that's the very thing making me very uninterested.

Well I'm not trying to be clever, and you obviously do care because you're in the thread.

Look at it this way, modern Medicine is the current Paradigm, 500 years ago the Paradigm was the diametric opposite. So, should they have sent people to gaol for using anasethic back then?

[HoreTore]

Well I'm not trying to be clever, and you obviously do care because you're in the thread.

Look at it this way, modern Medicine is the current Paradigm, 500 years ago the Paradigm was the diametric opposite. So, should they have sent people to gaol for using anasethic back then?

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