Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't know about blindness, but many of the chronic illnesses modern society is plagued by are the outcome of a lifestyle which is premised on the fact that almost anything can be correcte with the right treatments. The fact is that we live in a very irresponsible manner and most of our malaises are self-inflicted. Another side to this is the way in which modern allopathy enforces or tries to enforce a radical monopoly over all forms of health care, not just via the ideology of treatment, but also through legal measures. Other practitioners (Sheldon of Natural Hygiene is a good example) were legally persecuted all their lives for espousing and practicing treatments which threatened the monopoly of establishment medical practice. The drive of modern research to find a consumable cure for every ill dovetails very nicely with consumerism as a whole; to simply revise our lifestyle habits in order to avoid disease rather than purchasing off the shelf remedies to cure our self-inflicted maladies threatens not only the medical establishment, but the entire fabric of modern society. - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 0536 63001 All outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barney Quinn" <Barney.Quinn@noaa.gov> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:34 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] something something and now animals > John, > > I don't know if I understand what you are trying to say. There certainly > are operations which will prolong one's life. Ask a cancer or heart > patient. And, serious disease, like blindness can most certainly shorten > ones life in a number of ways which range from making one more accident > prone, more subject to opportunistic diseases, to destroying ones will to > live. I think that your analysis vastly underestimates the pernicious > effects that chronic illness has on people. > > Barney > > John Collier wrote: > > > This is the classic misperception. That one or another operation will > > make us live longer. It may improve your quality of life but it will > > have little effect on how long you live. You imply that being blind > > will prevent you from functioning in society. I would agree with the > > proviso that you say "as I do now". Many people function perfectly well > > in society with a wide variety of conditions that "normal" people > > consider catastrophic. > > > > John Collier > > > > On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 12:41 PM, Barney Quinn wrote: > > > > >> It is an opening into the broader debate of what consciousness and > > >> intelligence are. Should other "lesser" organisms be sacrificed to > > >> marginally improve our life span* (and looks)? > > > > > > Marginally improve my life span? I have very serious eye disease. I > > > have had > > > five operations. I may well need a sixth early next year. If it > > > weren't for > > > the modern, miracle medicinesand techniques which have been developed > > > in part > > > with animal research I would be blind, unale to support myself, and a > > > burden > > > to society. I am eternally greatful there there are doctors and > > > scientists > > > who have been willing to devote their lives to trying to help people > > > with > > > very real medical problems. > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html