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crashfrog
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Message 26 of 39 (292579)
03-06-2006 12:23 AM
Reply to: Message 24 by rgb
03-05-2006 10:39 PM


Re: This argument baffles me
Common sense?
What's common sensical about continuing to take a treatment after the sickness has been cured? I mean if there was sense to that we'd give antibiotics to everyone, even those who had never been sick.

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crashfrog
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Message 28 of 39 (292589)
03-06-2006 12:54 AM
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03-06-2006 12:44 AM


Re: This argument baffles me
No, I get it. I know why you take the entire course of antibiotics.
I don't understand the argument that it's "common sense" to do so, outside of the theory of evolution. Always doing what doctors say? Common sense dictates the opposite; doctors have been known to kill people.

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crashfrog
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Message 32 of 39 (292810)
03-06-2006 5:31 PM
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03-06-2006 5:48 AM


Re: This argument baffles me
Because most people don't have an adequate grasp of the theory, and it is impractical to go around shaking each person telling him the real reason.
I'm either not communicating my point effectively or not understanding yours. I understand that the reason you have to take the whole course isn't necessarily something that's easy to explain. Which is why I don't think it's common sense to take the whole course, doctors orders or not. "Common sense," for Americans and our culture of anti-intellectualism, dictates that we be skeptical of experts when they tell us something that doesn't make sense. Mom knows best, etc.
To the layperson it doesn't make sense to keep treating an illness after you've recovered from it. Maybe it makes "common" sense to trust your doctor but that's a debatable proposition.
But for the sake of argument that it is indeed common sense to not listen to your doctor, would you be willing to place a bet with me that you could with ease convince people like randman and faith to take the entire course of antibiotics for evolutionary reasons? I currently have 5 whole dollars in cash. How much do you have?
They'd just call it "adaptation" and accept the reasoning, so I'd say that's an easy bet.

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crashfrog
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Message 33 of 39 (292812)
03-06-2006 5:34 PM
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03-06-2006 7:39 AM


Re: No, it does not.
Any chance you and Zim will have, like, 20 kids, thus passing on that mutation to a greater degree than others? (I'm relying on sexual selection here because most people don't die during oral surgery.)

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