shani66

You really have issues, my guy. Your obsession with authority is something you should get help shedding.

First and foremost, yes a layman should pick those jobs up. It's not difficult to get the basics down and to safely work on things. Ffs sounds like you are terrified of even changing your own oil. i don't expect people to swap out their own engines or build their own OS, but plenty of 'advances' knowledge can be learned in a week and be useful.

Secondly; the reason it's competitive is because the number of doctors is artificially lowered by government intervention, not most people failing out of school or some shit. It's also common knowledge to anyone who has ever worked in or adjacent to the medical industry that plenty of people in it are complete morons; hell there is a worryingly high number of anti-vaxxers even! Which i didn't appreciate you comparing me to, jackass.

The lay person can have access to plenty of research materials, they just aren't bundled in a major network, and many tools that you'd need to watch out for in self medication are cheaply available from smaller clinics.

Plenty of people in every profession are idiots, doctors included. They are no more special than mechanics or programmers.

The 'strict vetting process' is only a method of keeping the supply of doctors low. Literally, that isn't conspiracy. Edit: although that is a u.s. issue specifically.

This in no way sounds like anti-vax rhetoric? Doing actual research and doing something that doesn't affect others is literally the exact opposite of what those people stand for.

The human body is just another machine. You can learn it as easily as you can learn how to fix whatever horrible sound you engine is making. The only advantage a doctor has over a layman is more direct access to resources (both knowledge, as in easy access to research, and tools, such as blood tests), but that doesn't exclude a random from using those resources themselves.

As long as you know what you're getting into i don't see the big deal. Doctor aren't some higher beings, hell a lot of them are idiots, you don't need a fancy piece of paper to understand a science (let alone a niche as small as medicine as it's applicable to you specifically). Just put the legwork in before hand and you can probably even do minor surgery on yourself just fine.

Although this does not comment on the legality of substance that would be used for that, the law has no baring on right and wrong.

God Christianity has been such a force for evil.

Fuck yeah, it was wired reading that entire thing with no pushback against the idea that gatekeeping is bad. Really feels like a childish position to hold, and i don't mean that I'm a condescending way, i mean that they've never seen anything they care about get worse because it got diluted.

Ngl, i don't see how bmw gets any sales when Mercedes exists. If you are actually rich a Mercedes is almost objectively the better vehicle, if you are just trying to show off the Mercedes is a better status symbol too.

You just blow in from stupid town?

It may just be easier to get rich if you're fucked in the head already. Risk avoidance? That's the sign of a smart person, but most ways for a poor to become a rich are far more likely to fail than succeed. Empathy? Healthy, but that'd stop you from stepping on people on the way up.

Especially as a writer, idk about other countries but the USA's literacy levels are abysmal (half the population reads at a 10 year old's level or worse!), so an idiot would have the largest audience.

The artist and the art are intrinsically intertwined. Lovecraft's work (to use a less immediate example) has all of his fears, including racism, built into the bones of the stories. Skillet is fundamentally culty Christian types, once you understand that their more normal music takes on a creepy meaning.

It's possible to pull unintentional meaning from a work, we do it all the time, but that doesn't mean the original intent should be disregarded. That idea is practically anti-art imo.

Isn't everyone in femcel memes married to each other? That's plenty of wives to right there

You know he's going to be ventrue

But like, literally everything on the Internet triggers that reaction out of context