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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • The policy isn’t there just to be extra nice, it’s because otherwise the patient dies without a liver.

    Since she was too sick for a partial liver transplant, and not eligible for a dead donor full liver transplant, she would have just died.

    It might seem cruel but the same is done for a lot of other procedures; if the chance of you dying in surgery is way too high, doctors won’t take the risk, they’re not executioners.

    It’s not a moral judgement about her alcoholism, the same would have been true if she had a cancer no surgeon would take on.














  • That’s not the argument I’m making. What I’m saying is that if you only take the raw numbers for a given event into account, and don’t consider the population of the event, then you can make any event affecting a large population look like an urgent affair when it’s not so urgent

    Human driven cars should be replaced with automation (or even better, automated public transportation) as soon as it’s viable. It’s not yet, so we should not rush corporations to put their unsafe vehicles on the street. Because then the only thing you’ll rush is transforming human driver fatalities into robotic driver fatalities, and you never know how worse things can get

    Edit: Wording