PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

<p>Euthanasia is allowing people to die, or even commit suicide, sometimes with a doctor's help, because the person chooses that over a lingering or painful death. Euthanasia is a liberty question because the desire to die comes from the patient, however, if the decision is to let a person, particularly a deformed newborn or someone who is brain dead, die naturally, that is compassionate dea...

<p>Modern medicine is intimidating to most people: the doctors, the facilities, the treatments, the costs. Plus, patients have almost no control over any of it, rising their anxiety level even higher. One of the ways to exert control over your own life is to make your goals subjective, and uniqueness is sought after because it gives control through obscure knowledge that only you know. Medic...

<p>Humans are inherently sociopathic, meaning they measure the alternatives and choose to act based on a rational decision-making process, but often what can be done and what should be done cross over the lines of courtesy & trust, the oil that lets society function. In a person-to-person contact, social pressures act to damper sociopathic excesses, but the Internet is free of such restr...

<p>The chemistry going on inside your body controls who you are more than anything else. Most people know that testosterone is one of the primary dictates of men's lives, but they don't know about an even more influential hormone, cortisol. When a person is stressed, their body releases cortisol. This is a primordially survival mechanism, and affects everything: decreased immune system, cell...

<p>Virtually all antibiotics have some strain of bacteria that is resistant to them. The theory goes that these resistant strains emerged when people did not take a full course of antibiotics, so blame the patient. If the not-full-course canard is true, antibiotic resistance would come from people who don't have access to cheap antibiotics so they only use 1 or 2 tablets until their symptoms...

<p>People use drugs for the same reason they drink alcohol, to reduce anxiety, which is an evolutionary motivation. The best drugs act on the opioid receptors of the brain; a terrific combination of euphoria and pain relief. Natural opiates like morphine, heroin & codine, come from the poppy plant, and they've been used for millennia, both recreationally and medicinally; in fact, morphin...

<p>Doctors are glorified mechanics who work retail, and they're definitely not patient centric; it's all about what's convenient for the hospital staff, specifically doctors and to a lesser extent, nurses. Egregious examples of this lack of patient consideration include: group rooms so that no one sleeps, blood draws and IVs at all hours, inefficient discharges, repeated questioning, and no...

<p>Advocates for a purely Market-driven approach to healthcare seem not to understand its monopolistic nature. Lasik is an example of the kind of heathcare that can be marketized, along with other elective, non-life-threatening procedures like breast augmentation, but those are the exceptions; most procedures require highly sophisticated decisions but most people don't have enough knowledge...

<p>While I was training as a doctor in England, my wife and I were on their fully socialized healthcare system, the National Health Service, or NHS, where everyone's covered essentially for free. It was acceptable and got the job done but it was bare-bones, something many Americans would take some getting used to. An example of my own experience gives a feel: I received a yearly checkup card...

<p>There's a lot to review about Marxism:</p> <ol> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Evolution favors Marxism.</p> </li> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Karl Marx was a philosophical technicia...

<p>Marxism is attractive to at least half the population, the half whose life is improved by forced sharing with the other, more successful, half. Plus, the vision Marx expresses is very similar to the afterlife described in Christianity which shares the age-old philosophy of: from those according to their ability, to those according to their need. This tenet also reverses control: those wit...

<p>Propaganda works... Bigtime. Propaganda can make masses of people believe a person rose from the dead or ride a flying horse. It doesn't make any difference if the idea is completely illogical or refuted by facts, keep saying that the aliens on the comet are coming to take you, and without rebuttal, people will drink the Kool-Aid. Our news sources have been completely compromised; the pri...

<p>Most people on The Left think Marxism is a taboo word, so deny that's what they are. However, when you compare the tenets of The Left: equality, justice, and democracy; those are the very foundations of Marxism: from those according to their ability, to those according to their need; the bourgeoisie are responsible to the proletariat for past injustices; and pure democracy. In response to...

<p>The morphing of Western ideals into something alien and unrecognizable is primarily the result of women, minorities & weirdos attempting to gain power, and has caused some bewilderment in the people of formerly Marxist nations, like the Soviets and Chinese. In China, especially, they are greatly entertained by what they call baizuo, or “White Left.” The term originated online just bef...

<p>Marxism is not a new attraction: it finds acceptance among those whose expectations of their success in life collided with reality. In fact, from a purely practical, self-interested perspective, Marxism works to alleviate the envy of perhaps one generation, possibly two, before it begins its inevitable collapse due to going against human nature. If you are in that lucky first generation a...

<p>In all fields, what used to be called Modern happened long ago, so what is happening now is called Post Modern, and this has happened to Marxism too. Marxism's basic tenet is Equality: from those according to their ability, to those according to their need, where class used to be the fulcrum; upper classes oppressing lower classes, usually measured by economic disparity. Unfortunately for...

<p>When the Soviet Union fell, everyone assumed Marxism was defeated. Yes, China was still around but they didn't seem threatening at the time and were dabbling in Capitalism anyway, and the few pockets of Marxism remaining were otherwise inconsequential. Unfortunately, nobody was looking inwardly because in retrospect, Marxism went nowhere, it just rebranded, went underground, and bided its...

<p>President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, FDR, is famous for helming America through The Depression & WW2, and was the progenitor of many social programs, including Social Security. Because of this, he's often derided by The Right as the archetype of socialism. An alternate, and more accurate, interpretation is that he was actually Capitalism's savior. During a time when Marxism was succes...

<p>Marxism was en-vogue long before Karl Marx was born, and will probably be where all democracies end up eventually. The core of Marxism: from those according to their ability, to those according to their need; is actually many thousands of years old: Plato would be a Marxist by that definition, and it certainly appears in The New Testament; the very concepts of religion has a penchant for...

<p>Karl Marx was a German ethnic Jew philosopher-lawyer exiled to London for his political writing in the middle of the 19<sup>th</sup> Century. He had a nervous disorder and insomnia, and his physical ailments and discomfort probably explain his caustic personality, euphemistically known as “critical theory.” He named all four of his daughters after his wife, Jenny; had a child...

<p>Intelligence brings with it self-awareness. It wouldn't have taken long for ancient man to determine that reducing envy & resentment in themselves and others was important to survival because perversity, actions intended to harm others which also harm yourself, a base human emotion which overrides logic, is what destroys civilizations: if too large of a percentage of the population ju...

<p>Let's review what defines gender:</p> <ol> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Sex is determined by a Y-chromosome but gender is a result of testosterone.</p> </li> <li> <p lang="en-US" style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;&quo...

<p>Succumbing to social norms is the greatest challenge to individuality; specifically, males face the absolutely frightening prospect of puberty. People will try to exert control over their life anyway they can, and an effective way is to make everything subjective, so it becomes about you; only you can say whether you're male or female: not medicine, not biology, not science; nothing can c...

<p>Over the past four decades there has been a precipitous drop of measured testosterone in boys and the men they grow into, which coincides with the fashionableness of vegetarianism; the so-called “soyboys,” because eating soy supposedly lowers testosterone. However, it's more likely that soyboys are simply a stage all males go through. Prepubescent boys require interaction with other testo...

<p>Testosterone production is in all males but it has societal triggers, the male dominance hierarchy being the most important. However, now that children are not allowed to play freely, and with "if everybody can't have one, no one can" Marxist ideology permeating everywhere, testosterone levels in boys have dramatically diminished. The anti-bullying campaigns have also removed an...