Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jadu59g wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:49 PM

Reply to comment by endorfan13 in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

To be fair one would need to distinguish better between medical malpractice which CAUSED death and malpractice which failed to prevent death. You don't typically get treatment if you're healthy.

Also - it's not an completely unreasinable interpretation but based on OPs other comments it doesn't seem like medical practice was their focus but that it was indeed about advocating for guns.

Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jadrvsl wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:35 PM

Reply to comment by RedModus in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

Yet i can't recall ever hearing any german complain that they need weapons to defend their rights against the government. Amongst 80+ millions they must exist for sure but they seem extremely rare.

As others have stated it's not like regular firearms will be enough to seriously put up a fight against your government if the military is on their side (and if not, you won't need to bring you own guns most likely). Sure it would be better than nothing but you're keeping weapons around which cause many deaths each year for an absolutely minuscule benefit in a hypothetical scenario that is very unlikely to happen.

Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jadol8l wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:14 PM

Reply to comment by RedModus in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

Yeah those things are totally related sure and yeah the germans are terribly oppressed in what they can and can't say because the germans are totally not constantly talking smack about their own politicians noooooo.

Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jado8mg wrote on February 28, 2023 at 6:12 PM

Reply to comment by NavrosGraye in medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

>Just like how they say gun Control will work, despite the cities with the strictest gun control having the worst gun violence.

So the cities with the worst gun violence have the strictest gun control?

Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jadk4qm wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:46 PM

Reply to medical malpractice kills 500k Americans every year, but the perceived good outways the bad, food for thought by RedModus

Ignoring the lower estimate stated in that very same source and rounding up the upper one by half a million unless i missed the 3 million somewhere.

Landlocked_WaterSimp t1_jac3s5u wrote on February 28, 2023 at 10:47 AM

Reply to TIL that the ancient Greeks placed a coin in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It is a myth that they placed a pair of them on the eyes. by joeljpa

The article you link states 'Variety of placement and number [of coins], including but not limited to a single coin in the mouth, is characteristic of all periods and places.'.

So it sounds to me like a 'not always in the mouth, not predominantely on the eyes, but anything goes'

Edit: Not saying the title is wrong per se just a bit too decisive IMO.

Further edit: At least according some superficial online search it has been proposed that coins over the eyes could kind of combine the purpose of pay forcthe ferryman and just to keep the eyelids from opening but i didn't find many sources neither in support nor opposition of this theory.