You didn't have Internet access in 1997?

How do you figure that?

Pitiful. I use the completely impossible to guess, unhackable, passcode 2845.

Don't be stupid. There are infinite non-repeating patterns.

This is what delusion looks like!

The same could have been said about Apple circa 1986. "Apple has no focus, no goal,, no vision, no direction to go."

For all we know, in a few years we'll see the triumphant of the former co-CEO's as an important turning point. We'll watch Apple decline and say "Well, Apple doesn't have a Lazaridis. Not even vaguely close. Not by a light year."

I see that you have absolutely no scientific background. What's it like to be so sure of yourself with little to know knowledge of the subject?

It's undoubtedly true. Go look at the numbers. You'll be surprised.

Just like BlackBerry was not very long ago...

No, you're still wrong.

Here's how it works:

See how easy that is?

Yeah, everyone here knows that. They've known it for years. No one is arguing that. That said, I should point out that sometimes it's benign, sometimes tragic, and sometimes it's helpful. The same can be said about any medical decision, made by anyone involved, for any reason.

But they can be the same thing! The JW bit is just really obvious, which is why you choose to focus on that.

What you really want to do is bash religious people because it makes you feel smart and important. Yes, the JW's restrictions have caused countless unnecessary child deaths. We get it. Even the parents get it. It's a shitty thing.

What you propose to prevent it, however, is far more dangerous -- and far more harmful.

But how can that be?! Let's start with the most obvious: JW's may simply opt out of the medical system completely, for fear that their children will be violated. Possibly relying on home remedies and black market medicine and medical care.

No, I'm saying that you'll be less willing to blindly trust the care of your children to someone else.

See, it's really easy to make up rules that apply to others and not yourself. I seriously doubt you'd be willing to live by the same rules you're proposing if they actually affected you.

Yes, yes you would. Which is *exactly* why you wouldn't want to abide by the same rules you'd impose on others!

Let me know if you feel the same way after you have children of your own.

No. I didn't even know that "TruBood" was a thing until I saw it referenced endlessly in this thread. Since that strange Ann Rice movie, I just assumed that vampire related media was intended for teenage girls and middle-aged lonely women. Being neither of those two things, I never bothered.

I guess you don't know many MD's.

Competence is ... uncommon.