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Comment: Re:It's not a bias if it's true (Score 1) 304

by sjames (#43826155) Attached to: Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients

It is if it turns out your recommendations are either impossible to follow without intense suffering or if they're sinmply ineffective.

If you recommend leeches for a broken leg, when the patient visits next week and still can't walk, it may not be because they ignored your prescription.

Comment: Re:obese people don't follow diet.. (Score 1) 304

by sjames (#43826125) Attached to: Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients

Obese people have to ignore one of the few basic drives stronger than sex for the rest of their lives. Not completely ignore it, mind you, that leads to death. No, they have to tickle the dragon.

Thin people just have to take wierd Al's advice.

yes, I know that latter isn't necessarily true, but it's as true as your claims.

Comment: Re:not so simple... Re:I should hope so (Score 0) 254

He is not capable of any major harm of course,

then:

I just worry one day I'm gonna hear about another nutcase shooting spree, and hear his name as the culprit...

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he is convinced he has Asperger's (he doesn't display any symptoms except "being smart",

and immediately then:

which he isn't at all)

Huh?

Comment: Re:price tag is irrelavant (Score 0) 289

by Alex Belits (#43819825) Attached to: Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook

I would think that studying how fast a 1-year-old learns to say "mine" compared to "ours" would refute such a claim...

One year old babies neither talk, nor have a concept of other people being their peers.

Anyway, ownership behaviour seem to me to be quite related, whether they are claimed by an individual, a family, a company or a state. "Theft" from such an "owner" seem to be met with similar emotional responses across all such owner classes.

No, that's a much more fundamental concept of causing harm. Taking away something a person needs, harms him regardless of any "ownership" involved.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides

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