Responsibilities of knowledge
You are not a doctor, or not their doctor: but you are absolutely certain two people have potentially terminal cancer. (Base this question upon the premise that the observation is accurate.)Person A,...
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What I said in "No Exit" does not apply to this thread, though. I really would like your thoughts, here.
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It does not matter what 'you' know.If the person in question is of sound mind and not subject to power of attorney or some other situation that would rest control of their life decision from them,...
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The first knower responsibility is to tell them the truth, for the reasons Rhui Chatar stated above.This responsibility is moral, of course, not legal.Then, if you push your moral responsibility a...
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"Of sound mind". Given that this does not constitute the traditional association of "thinking like me", just what does it constitute? Again, the usual one is establishing awareness and acceptance of...
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"I wonder just what proportion of those who wander by this board and stay would tend toward rather less of a false consensus bias than the average. "You mean... we realize that there is no such...
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Good. But if I am the one who asks the questions, then you get to be the one who tries to answer them.We're listening...
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Quote: You mean... we realize that there is no such consensus and that we just pretend? :) The earliest, most common method of dealing with the world at large (once we are old enough to recognise that...
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I'll go with Rhui on this one...In order for a will to properly govern itself and the body, the will must be as informed as possible. Information = knowledge = power. I believe that folks who are...
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