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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Someone has probably already posted this, but apparently there's a researcher out there who says that black holes do not exist. In the interest of accuracy, Disney's going to have to remake that movie now.
That's pretty interesting. Disney is okay though, it would still have a massive gravitational pull.
THOMASH!
AIMEE!
Who's got a hug fer you?
I do.
John Crichton is going to be so bummed.
Not to mention Stephen Hawking.
t hugs Thomash back a LOT
I think I'm with Connie on the being bothered by it. On the one hand, if she's not competent to stand trial at the moment, is she really competent to make medical decisions for herself? On the other, uh... I don't know. It seems iffy. Is there a relative who can make decisions on her behalf? I guess I'm bothered by the idea of a stranger making the decision about whether she, if the "she" under treatment can be considered the same "she", would want, or should have.
I'm not sure that was at all sense-making, especially with my "'she's'". That was a flurry of punctuation, wasn't it? To some extent, it's this question that keeps bugging me about treatment against the patient's will -- if I'm made delusional by fever, then even if I think the doctors are trying to kill me, I'd be grateful afterward if you went ahead and treated me anyway. But if you brainwashed me, I might be grateful afterward, but that doesn't make it ethical.
I may be wandering from the point.
"Competent" people can refuse medical treatment. What happens when you're not (or might not be) competent, in the legal sense? Do you let someone not competent make life-changing decisions?
I don't have a general answer to this question, but either the court or a guardian, for the most part, makes the decisions.
Also of course your rights are curtailed once you are indicted. They get to imprison you, for instance. They may also be freer to ignore your medical preferences.
I don't have a general answer to this question, but either the court or a guardian, for the most part, makes the decisions.
Yeah, I was actually going at that rhetorically, which probably wasn't clear. Connie's original point was more about the ethics of taking this course, rather than the legality, I think. That's the part that's a lot harder to answer.
Always nice to feel loved.
I hear you're going back to the gym. I started excersizing, too.
Hi Thomash!
Yay exercise! How's Tuckson?