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To: VadeRetro
Where is the commitment to freedom of thought? Why not let the market decide what kind of doctors people want to have? If we lived in a theocracy and they wanted to stop you from being a doctor because you were an evo, I'd stick up for you Vade.

I believe you have a God-given right to think differently from me, even a God-given right to reject God.

I would not want to be your patient though. I further advise you to have only creationists for doctors, especially as your health goes down. They will still view you as a sacred being made in the image of their God. The evo believers will view you as a failing machine that is about ready for the scrap heap. Which do you think will provide you with the best health care?

35 posted on 10/06/2002 10:23:33 AM PDT by Ahban
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To: Ahban
Where is the commitment to freedom of thought? Why not let the market decide what kind of doctors people want to have? If we lived in a theocracy and they wanted to stop you from being a doctor because you were an evo, I'd stick up for you Vade.

This is written in response to #15. I am perplexed that you don't think #15 anticipates and answers this question. My history teacher cannot be a Holocaust denier. You can have all the loony ideas you want outside of your proffered specialty, but not in areas that seriously overlap with it.

I would not want to be your patient though.

I've seen you making inferences from the evidence and would worry if you thought I was doing it right.

36 posted on 10/06/2002 10:28:19 AM PDT by VadeRetro
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To: Ahban
If we lived in a theocracy and they wanted to stop you from being a doctor because you were an evo, I'd stick up for you Vade.

How did this professor stop anyone from becoming a doctor?

48 posted on 10/06/2002 10:50:35 AM PDT by general_re
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To: Ahban
They will still view you as a sacred being made in the image of their God. The evo believers will view you as a failing machine that is about ready for the scrap heap.

Or the creationist will think that your time has come to go back to your creator and the evolutionist may be convinced that this is your only life and so tries to preserve it as long as possible.

53 posted on 10/06/2002 11:01:31 AM PDT by BMCDA
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To: Ahban
Where is the commitment to freedom of thought? Why not let the market decide what kind of doctors people want to have?

Of course, in a free market of education the professor has the right to decide who he does and doesn't give a recommendation to. You can't compel him to give a recommendation to a person that he honestly believes is undeserving of a recommendation. That knife cuts both ways.

But in this case nobody is really interfering with the free market, insofar as the professor is not making it impossible for him to become a doctor. The free market punishes people who make bad choices, but it generally doesn't make it impossible to make bad choices.

76 posted on 10/06/2002 12:05:36 PM PDT by tortoise
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