[donmeaker]

It is also important to remember that doctors have often been taught a statist, or even racist view of "harm".

German doctors killed the retarded, those inflicted with mental illness, polio, victims of car accidents, and even wounded veterans both before the Nazis and after the Nazis. That mindset provided the philosophical underpinning for the death camps, and for treating homosexuals, gypsies, dissidents, and jews as "untermench" fit only to be killed.

In Germany, FDR would have been put down for being crippled. In the US we elected him President.

[Yaron]

I reckon it's bollocks, because you don't need a doctor to cut someone's ears off. Infact a doctor is likely to do it less painfully and with better instruments. Why would you bother. Just doesn't ring true.