Governments are organized according to political processes rather than rational ones.

Even under ideal conditions, any (especially larger) organizational body is extremely difficult to keep from falling into these types of irrationality.

We have many names for variations on the phenomenon. I’ll cite groupthink. You can fall down a rabbit hole on your own from there.

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This place is full of raving lunatics.

I’m not used to a world where left wing thoughts are this stupid and ill informed. That’s the realm of right wing media, ime.

You’re not even acknowledging any of my argument.

It’s so fucking weird.

Why would you think it’s appropriate to comment if you’re just guessing? This is not a question where random guessing is appropriate.

Your reasoning is correct in that we do eat brains, and of course they don’t get us high.

You’re wrong is the fact that brain is mostly fat. That’s incredibly misleading. The brain is entirely nervous tissue plus supporting things like vessels. It does contain lots of myelin which serves to insulate axons, since nervous tissue is electrical. Myelin happens to contain a lot of fatty acids, but it is in no sense “fat”.

*induction

Convection is a fan that runs in your oven.

You are making no sense.

I have pet ducks.

Most recently one had a problem with bone loss in its femoral head. It couldn’t walk much at all and was getting further injuries because of that. The other ducks would also leave it behind. Being alone is very stressful for a duck.

You can’t do a hip replacement on a duck. They wouldn’t understand or be able to recover. In any case, she’d easily get picked off by a daytime predator. Eaten alive.

You better believe that euthanasia was the best course of action for her.

Sure. That’s not really a death panel though. That’s the inefficiency of lots of systems. If you make someone jump through enough hoops, they’ll give up. That saves money.

No one is talking about that. Healthcare has a budget. You have to distribute that budget equitably.

It’s a more generalized, non emergency version of triage.

Some people will die no matter what you do. Don’t waste resources on them. Some people will recover if you do nothing. Don’t waste resources on them.

Some people will recover if you spend resources on them and die if your don’t. Use your resources on them.

There’s always a cost benefit tradeoff.

They all want access to the Chinese market.

This doesn’t appear to be anything new. Traffic engineers have been optimizing lights in large networks for decades.

They just have access to all the data they’ve been collecting on you, which is way more than the traffic meter cords can provide.

Right. No one has been lying about this.

Everyone should know that being around burning things is bad. It’s not like the actual food you’re cooking is not also putting these things in the air, even on an electric stove…

Who said anything about lying? Why is this place so toxic.

It’s marketing. They are telling you a story to sell products.

Unless you consider marketing lying, which I suppose is one possible interpretation…

Deciding to make or not make a product is not a simple thing. Lots of decisions are part of it.

They just don’t want to talk about it and want you to buy one of their other products.

What do you mean?

They don’t want to make a product. They say “consumers don’t like it”. You ask for evidence. They say it’s confidential, or they deliberately sabotage the availability of the product and say, “see?”

It’s standard marketing.

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They say that all the time because it disposes of the issue without them needing to provide any evidence.

I figured it was because he was dressed like a cat.

This is technically the case everywhere.

Healthcare is one of those things that will consume all available resources, and we can’t do that.

Consider someone that requires round the clock, individual care. They are consuming the entire economic output of more than three people to care for someone that will have no more. I know there’s a lot of communists here, but communism doesn’t change that fact.

What if we could keep someone alive for $1M per day? How long should we do it? We shouldn’t, and “death panels” are how that needs to be decided.

You can talk about price gouging, but really high end medical care is akin to magic. It takes very smart people to do it, and something like an MRI requires liquid helium to remain superconducting. That’s just extremely expensive.

Edit: this place is really weird. So many down votes. No argument against it. Very toxic.

Exactly.

It’s a hard argument, but untreatable depression can technically be terminal.

If mine weren’t treatable, it would be.

Assisted suicide and euthanasia are messy subjects, but it’s just so awful to not allow this for situations where we’d consider it cruel if an animal were in the same situation.

We can provide a “good death” to people who have nothing but suffering left in their life.

If my time comes, I’ll take it in my own hands, but the fear is that something will happen where I can suddenly no longer make that decision.

Right. The point is they didn’t even try to test it.

That took far too long for humanity to figure that out.