is medicine morally wrong?

[Ylen13]

i don't belive in god so i see nothing wrong with medicine

 

[Vic]

No. The only possible moral wrong in medicine would be if it is forced on a patient against their will. And if a patient declined medical care, that's not suicide either.
This is an absolutely ridiculous and immature argument...

 

[911paramedic]

I imagine you can guess my standpoint on this.

If meds are wrong, wouldn't surgery, eyeglasses, dentistry, and all other medical interventions be wrong also? (heck, you would even have to throw sunscreen in the 'bad' catagory)

This is ridiculous if you ask me.

 

[RossGr]

IF A GOD EXISTS, It gave us an inquiring mind which was clearly intended to be used. Not to use our inquiring mind is counter the will of god.

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: 911paramedic
I imagine you can guess my standpoint on this.

If meds are wrong, wouldn't surgery, eyeglasses, dentistry, and all other medical interventions be wrong also? (heck, you would even have to throw sunscreen in the 'bad' catagory)

This is ridiculous if you ask me.

yeah, medicine or drugs tend to be a very hard thing to define. if you sit down and look at it, basically food and water can be considered physically and mentally alterting substances. i mean, i know its extreme and it seems like im nit-picking but the further you go down the line the harder it can be to tell the difference between what is and is not a drug.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
medicine is morally wrong because it screws up NATURAL SELECTION.

Seems to me that I've seen this argument before...

Actually, medicine is natural selection. Survival of the fittest is not restricted to the fittest physically. Medicine is something that aid those who are fittest mentally. It has been mental fitness that has allowed humans to survive, compared to most animals, we're pretty puny and our natural defenses are a joke.

ZV

your argument is not complete tho. one of the impacts of antibiotics is that resistant strains of organisms have continually developed. it's a losing battle for us. we cannot continue to develop antibiotics at the rate that these organisms can.

IT is about natural selection, but this is the wrong war to fight. if it's a fight between whethor we can develop antibiotics faster OR these organisms can become resistant to our antibiotics, we lose every time.

it's the wrong approach.

 

[bandana163]

You get sick because bacteria and viruses want to divide and live by using your healthy cells as feeders or hosts. No gods/transcendents/demigods involved.