{"id":1292,"date":"2015-05-20T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2015-05-21T06:06:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:06:18","slug":"judge-not-lest-ye-be-cured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/judge-not-lest-ye-be-cured\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Cured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 20th: Placebo Effect<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>If you could create a painless, inexpensive cure for a single ailment, what would you cure and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

I read somewhere that when our cells reproduce, they can only do so a certain number of times. There\u2019s some strand of DNA or alleles or something, I don\u2019t know, that doesn\u2019t copy well and after so many tries it just can\u2019t do it any more. Cancer cells, on the other hand, don\u2019t seem to have this problem, which is why they reproduce like crazy and eat everything. Which is pretty darn bad, and so I should say I\u2019d cure cancer if I could.<\/p>\n

But consider the case of Henrietta Lacks, who\u2019s cancer cells have benefited so much oh humankind (if not herself or her family: read the book<\/a> about her for more info). I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some moral logical fallacy in what I\u2019m suggesting, but if cancer had been cured, what non-cancer ailments would the world still suffer from?<\/p>\n

And while I appreciate the prompt\u2019s call for an \u201cinexpensive\u201d cure, I am nevertheless a cynic, and I can\u2019t help but feel that a cure for cancer would somehow be compromised by one lobby or another, and somehow even a cure as cheap as \u201crub an apple on your head\u201d would be turned into a multi-billion dollar business.<\/p>\n

Thus I find myself not considering the prompt\u2019s spirit, but all of the ways I\u2019d have to defend against my choice, mostly defend against my own warped imagination. Because no matter what horrible ailment I consider, somehow there\u2019s going to be an argument for how my choice is a terrible one.<\/p>\n

And therefore I will choose the ailment of \u201cbeing a judgmental jerk\u201d as the ailment I would like the cure the most.<\/p>\n

Of course, many many people might insist that diagnosing someone a judgmental jerk is a matter of opinion, not fact. To those people I say, \u201cget thee to a pharmacy, thou sick bastards.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be first in line for the cure, by the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 20th: Placebo Effect.\u00a0If you could create a painless, inexpensive cure for a single ailment, what would you cure and why? I read somewhere that when our cells reproduce, they can only do so a certain number of times. There\u2019s some strand of DNA or alleles or something, I don\u2019t know, that doesn\u2019t … <\/p>\n

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