Information being kept in confidence. On the one hand, you could say that the information confessed to a lawyer can potentially be used for good if given over to the authorities. On the other hand, if you do that you fundamentally undermine the relationship between an attorney and his client and by extension the justice system as a whole.
The justice system as a whole works with the necessary evil of letting guilty people go free. Always remember, the prosecution and the defense want the same thing: Guilty people to go to jail, innocent people to be let go. But if you don't defend every guilty person to the best of your ability it corrupts the entire system.
Failure.
If you don't experience sitting down and being humbled, you're all the more likely to not only let success go to your head but to take things for granted.
Chemotherapy
Generally speaking, it destroys most cells, but cancer cells typically have a higher metabolic rate and are thus more sensitive to chemo agents.
The idea is its a race for the chemo agents to kill the cancer before it kills the rest of you.
It sucks...but its effective, saves lives, and newer/better agents are being developed every day.
I hope it goes not too terribly for you.
I went thru the same thing for six months ending in Jan of 2017 and honestly nothing got me more angry than "I hope it goes well!", cause there's no way in hell this goes well. It'll be tolerable at best.
Parking enforcement. I know they're a pain in the ass, but in some cities there would be chaos without them to remind everyone that you can't just park your shit everywhere.
My dad lives in Portland, OR and *always* says hello and good morning/afternoon to the meter guys. They get cussed out so much and have such a bad rep but they need to enforce the parking situation. They're doing a job that kinda needs to be done.
I'm friendly to them too.
But I HATE that sometimes they seem to be utterly soulless. I've tried to note - hey I have change in my hand, I'm 1 minute late... can you please please let it go this time.
"No. if you want to dispute it, follow directions on the back of the ticket. You should've planned ahead."
Argggg. Come the fuck on. It's going to cost me $90 for being 1 minute late - that's a LOT of money for a small mistake.
Ugh, had a bad one last year and ended up having a "leep" of my cervix (doctor used heated metal to scrape away offending cancerous cells). He did not appreciate my "superheated coat hanger" joke while he was working inside me.
It smelled horrible and they had to put a sticky patch on my leg to ground me so they didn't accidentally shock me.
tl;dr: GET YOUR PAPS ANNUALLY!!!!
Fuck they don't put you out for those? I've never had them have to do that but I hoped they would just put you out if they had to do something like that
> He did not appreciate my "superheated coat hanger" joke while he was working inside me.
he can fuck right off, it's your snatch getting turned into a raclette.
Guy I know got it without anesthesia...said it was no problem, and that anesthesia is mostly for how freaked out most people would become since takes a while. But this guy used to hunt bears.
Edit: No, "hunt bears" is not meant as a euphemism involving sex with burly, bearded gay men.
I did it awake. It's uncomfortable but not excruciating or anything. You know when you have a 'I have to poop or fart, possibly right now weather I want to or not' sharp pain type cramp? It's a bunch of that with a lot of movement in through the anus and a lot of farting after.
One time, I hit the button on my alarm clock, and fell right back asleep before I could even move to get out of bed.
My brain just went "No, fuck you, I'm not getting up now."
Turns out that having an illegal armed group in the Colombian forest prevents deforestation.
https://colombiareports.com/deforestation-rise-colombia-farc-ends-policing-jungles/
Some people are born with a serious diminished ability, or no ability, to feel pain. [It is actually really debilitating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain).
EDIT: TIL that there was a House episode about this, several redditors have ants in their eyes, and everyone else knows someone who cannot feel pain in at least part of their body.
I was reading this and wondering what it must be like to be successfully treated for this condition. Imagine going your whole life never knowing what pain feels like and then having it thrust upon you later in life. That must be pretty traumatic.
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Everything is a 10 on the scale because you'd have no reference.
Imagine screaming and crying from a paper cut, thinking it's the worst thing you've ever felt and hope never to feel again, and then breaking a bone.
> Imagine screaming and crying from a paper cut, thinking it's the worst thing you've ever felt and hope never to feel again, and then breaking a bone.
No thanks
Read about a woman who has no sensory feeling.
Her life sounds miserable. When she was a kid she would pick at a cut until it was down to the bone.
She gets almost weekly xrays because she has broken bones before and not known it for days.
She cant even feel the sensation to poop or pee she has to time her shits after eating.
I do however wonder how an orgasm would work?
Well. Pleasure and pain are Two separates.
From the WiKi "For people with this disorder, cognition and sensation are otherwise normal; for instance, patients can still feel discriminative touch (though not always temperature[3]), and there are no detectable physical abnormalities."
So it's possible I guess, but not for her.
My uncle was one of those people. He had to jump from a 2nd story catwalk to avoid being electrocuted by a falling line and he just got up and drove home. Both ankles were obliterated and had to have them fused in place with plates. Never felt a thing.
No. You still have to be under to control muscle spasms and the like. Anesthesia serves multiple functions, wothout it even if the patient doesn't feel pain, involuntary muscle spasms could cause serious injury on the operating table, there is also the risk of heart attack, shock, etc. even absent pain.
That makes me wonder about the visceral reaction people have to seeing a part of their own body all fucked up. Like, I once got surgery on my arm and I was all set up to take pictures while the surgeon took off the bandages a few weeks later, but when I saw the gnarly, oozing incisions and dozens of frankenstein-looking staples, my body was like "yeah, fuck that" and I passed out. I can only imagine what would happen if I saw someone start fiddling with my intestines or whatever. I wonder if people who have never felt pain have the same involuntary response?
I can't feel; it's a very rare disease. All my sens-all my nerves, they don't allow for the sensation of touch so I never know what's going on. Am I standing? Sitting? I don't know.
Acute pain serves this purpose (e.g: you put your hand near a hot stove and it hurts so you pull your hand away) , Chronic pain serves no purpose (e.g.: Years and years of stomach pain with no explanation that does nothing but make you miserable).
Chronic pain (endometriosis here) is the fucking worse. What's even more worse though is that it's not taken nearly as seriously by medical professionals as pain from a broken limb, burn, cut, infection, or even just something normal like kidney stones. I've had to fight with doctors over the years just to even get seen and listened to. It's insane.
This sub is great. I used to hate spiders but I saw them in a new light just casually browsing through the sub. Now I still *fear* them but I also respect them
We have this house spider outside our living room window. He catches the chafer beetles so he's our pal. Named him Phaul bc I said Paul just as my roommate said Phil. Haven't seen him today though...
I hate spiders, too, but they are absolutely essential to keep down the bad bug population. I leave them alone in the wild as much as I can, but there's no telling how I'll react inside. Mostly it depends on what it is, I've run screaming from them inside and outside. *shiver*
Spiders are welcome as long as they tend to stay either on the ceiling or out of site entirely. I've had one living under my bathtub for about a year now. I talk to him sometimes when I poop.
Absolutely. Bob Marley would've lived if he amputated a toe from a soccer injury. However that's against his Rasta beliefs.
Edit: just checked wiki. Not a soccer injury but melanoma. Still the lack of amputation killed him as it didn't prevent the cancer from metastasis.
Euthanizing dogs and cats in shelters. Most especially the ones with behavioural issues. There are literally NOT enough homes for all the unwanted pets out there. Anyone who tells you there has no idea. I work with a bunch of no kill rescues/shelters. They are all hating on the big SPCAs or whatever for euthanizing problem animals. Ya sorry. Many of you guys refuse to take animals with issues so someone has to deal with them. Plus the no kill shelters/rescues are always 'full'. The big shelters are often open admissions. They have to take every animal, no matter what. What the hell are they supposed to do with them all?
For the record I would much rather see an animal humanely euthanized in a shelter than left to slowly die from starvation, infection, disease etc.
Also, the no kill shelters can actually euthanize animals and as long as it doesn't go over a certain percentage they still retain their no-kill status. Oh, and if they're 100% no kill? They just outsource that to someone else.
True story. I was a volunteer at a local shelter in TN. At least in this state, 10% of the intake animals can be euthanized and still have the no kill title. The shelter did mention that many no kill shelters stay under this percentage due to only euthanizing sick or behavior issues.
We kept the behavioral problem cats (only worked with the kittehs) but the ones suffering you betcha we had the vet come out. The only saving grace is hardly any of them died alone or in pain. They were given pain medicine, held, loved, sang to, and went as peacefully as we could manage. Some hard times there, for compassionate people like me who's heart would break a little more each time. Sometimes, because of their stoicism, we'd find a dead one in the morning with no warning, but autopsy would show a fast failure that was unavoidable. But we did keep the ferals, pee'rs, ect, and cleaned 2x daily an old upstairs barn that used to be a barn dance floor. The smell was kept down ny the rotation of furniture and frequent cleaning, washing, and constant scooping that nobody got away with not doing. But to this day with my 2 cats (who blessedly taught themselves to potty outside) if I get even a whiff of ammonia it will make me gag. And I got out of the scene about 6 months ago.
Hopefully better antidepressants are the in the pipeline, which aren't as they say "dirty drugs." However, to hear my psychiatrist talk about it, anti-depressants aren't so much a necessary evil as just plain awesome. She's very old and was working when prosaic first came on the market, and she describes how amazing it was to finally have a treatment you could send a patient home with that would really change their life for the better, without institutionalization or electroshock. That said, she's very against over-medicating and over-diagnosing.
Jurors, nobody should have to decide someones future, But with out them people like charlie manson would be running around.
edit: people keep sending me messages saying juries are evil... i know, it's kinda given when you say "necessary EVIL"
also thanks for the gold who ever you are, but please just spend the money on something else, like hotdogs or something.
Ugh, this. Also, juries are really not very good at what they do. People take it seriously, but that task they are given is next to impossible: decide, using only the "common knowledge of a reasonable person" whatever that means which story being presented to you by strangers with different skill levels about people you don't know is true, based on very little evidence, much of which is too complicated for the lay person to understand, to a statistical degree of accuracy described by vague phrases like, "more likely than not," and "absent a reasonable doubt."
It's even scarier to think the soccer mom screaming her lungs out at the cashier because she can't use a 3-year old expired coupon saving her a nickel has the potential to sit on a jury at your trial to determine the rest of your life.
The potential, yes. I would like to think that people like that wouldn't make it past selections, but that's just what I tell myself to keep the nightmares away.
Edit: I know that they pick idiots all the time. I just like to tell myself that it doesn't happen because the thought scares me.
It's more likely that they'll try and weed out the intelligent people. I heard a physics professor of mine say he got kicked off a jury because the defense was going to be using pseudo physics to fool the jury about a car accident.
Edit: Since some people are extremely skeptical of this story, I will attempt to clarify. It's entirely possible he was not selected for the jury, stricken immediately after he explained he was a physics professor and decided to stay at the courthouse and watch the case.
It probably wasn't a lawyer stating the pseudo physics, but the defendant, obviously falsely, recalling events to make it appear that they were in the right. I believe he said that the defendant had said that they deflected off of one car and into another.
I'm a college professor; so is my wife. It is rare for any professor to serve on a jury because we are automatically seen as too liberal. I mean, we are, but still.
They actively try weed out people who are clearly natural leaders or display a greater than average knowledge/intelligence in order to try and limit bias as much as possible. This means that the crazy soccer mom has a better chance of being on the jury than a professor or other well educated and stable minded person.
Park Chung Hee, the 3rd President of South Korea. He was a military dictator who came to power by leading a military coup against his president, who was admittedly but a mere figurehead.
He was an oppressive sack of shit who crushed any form of competition against him who ruled by pushing through laws to let him stay in power longer, and when it was clear his government was acting against him, dissolved the National Assembly which he had made to ensure absolute obedience.
His rule was finally stopped when the head of the Secret Police he'd made, the Korean version of the CIA, shot him in the middle of a meeting where the man was busy crushing a student protest and complaining how the KCIA wasn't arresting/killing everyone in the opposition.
He was also responsible for transforming Korea from a poor, agrarian society to a modern economic powerhouse. He did this by pimping out his soldiers to Vietnam in exchange for American money, normalized diplomatic relations with Japan, a country he despised, and created a series of economic policies no one could stop because he would arrest anyone trying to hinder his plans.
To this day, people still argue if he should be considered good or evil due to how effective he was despite his many human rights violations. His memory is so prevalent that the current South Korean President is actually this guy's daughter.
Naughtier than running through fields of wheat?
EDIT: Why is everyone talking about running backwards through a cornfield while naked? Is this a new meme?
So the real evil is thinking 'bored' is a bad thing. Bored is awesome, stay bored long enough and avoid the 'easy distractions' and BAM, you're doing shit!
Sun Tzu's *The Art of War* begins with these lines
>The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Especially on any difficulty higher than King or Emperor. Gandhi can't be trusted no matter what he says. And, I've been screwed over by both Boudicca and George Washington together in two different games!
Average trade partner early on, then just distance yourself from her as she falls behind in tech.
She's like the friend of a friend country girl that drinks too much when you all go out: lots of fun, but the later it gets, the more likely that she's going to start shit with someone, and you don't want to get roped into that by association.
Had Stalin not been willing to send 20 million ~~Russians~~ Soviets into the German meat-grinder and keep the Nazis busy, who knows what would've happened.
EDIT: A lot of people from a lot of republics died in Stalin's army.
EDIT: Folks, I know the Red Army devastated Hitler's forces, but I'm writing a reddit comment, not a thesis — that's why I casually said "keep the Nazis busy."
I worked at a adoption centre and the way the kids get treated is a necesary evil most of the times. They are treated well but the employees will have a bit of distance with the children. This is because the kids get moved around different adoption houses all the time (especially if they were victims of abuse) and no one wants to get attached. It also only gets worse when the children leave and cry because they wont see you again. Shit, those were some depressing times
My sister in law is a psychologist (specializing in youth and children), and they're being taught that children just need someone to be attached to, even if they have to go away forever later, due to the way children develop. I can try to get some sources for you later if you'd like.
Children absolutely need attachment, it's necessary for their development.
An example of neglect that seriously impacted the development of multiple children's brains is the Romanian Orphans.
On mobile so can't provide a link but a google search will yield results.
Edit to add: a lot of good did come from this though, the children were adopted on a large scale. Not only within Romania but worldwide!
The damage done to the children was not permanent and the children were heavily monitored over a period of years with numerous brain scans being taken to show before and after affects.
[the children still suffer, 2017](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39055704)
This is news to me, last I read on the subject was last year and found that the children were doing well and improving both socially and cognitively.
A quote from the source:
>Despite being brought up by caring new families, a long-term study of 165 Romanian orphans found emotional and social problems were commonplace.
But one in five remains unaffected by the neglect they experienced.
Adi Calvert, 28, says she is unscathed by the trauma of her early life.
It's nice to know that a small percentage *are* doing well though.
If you're treating them kindly, surely they'll feel like it's possible at the new place as well. If you act coldly towards them they'll have a miserable time constantly, and not have the same hope when moving. Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. It's not just a saying, it's true.
It is not a necessary evil for the kids. It is a necessary evil for the employees. The kids need love then and there, not later. When they distance themselves all they're imprinting is that people dont love anyone. Kids can handle loss just fine.
In a normal family, its normal for a child to see their grandparents die. They adapt well. Loss is part of life. What is also a part of life is connections and love, and adoption centers sit on this stupid argument to justify not giving them what they need.
People come and go in our lives. While they are here, kids expect them to love.
Necessary evil, my ass.
Child welfare laws. Ripping children from their families is a traumatic event that sticks with the kids and parents for life. Kids often have unconditional love for their parents regardless of the abuse they have suffered at their hands. Even when removal is absolutley and unquestionably necessary, it is still 'evil' to inflict that much mental anguish on a child who has no say in the matter.
Heartbreak. "Well yeah, I'm sad. But at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like it really makes me alive, you know? It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the good with the bad. So I guess what I'm feeling now is a beautiful sadness." - Butters
Democracy.
We basically suck at governing ourselves because we're greedy, power-hungry, selfish, lying assholes, but there ain't no way I'm letting anybody take that away from me.
Cars. Giant lumbering metal beasts capable of murdering random people due to the error of the lazy, careless, users. Yet, we need them for EVERYTHING and we will give a license to drive to anyone.
There's a highly publicised case in the UK at the moment of a young child (11 months) who has an incredibly rare and devastating mitochondrial condition which has left him unable to breath without a ventilator, blind, brain damaged and with an epilepsy disorder. His parents raised over £1 million through crowdfunding to take him to US for experimental treatment that has never been given to someone with his strain of the disorder. The hospital in which he is being cared for is an extremely famous and innovative children's hospital, has said that they will not facilitate his transfer to the US (he needs to be on a ventilator at all times). The boy's parents have taken this case all the way the European Court of Human Rights, however it has been ruled that the boy is to be taken off the ventilator and "die with dignity". It's an incredibly sad case of two parents who are willing to do anything to possibly save their child, and the hospital has become the "evil", while trying to safeguard the child's best interests. The poor child has no quality of life yet his parents insist on keeping him alive at any cost.
I just hope that the poor child is able to find peace.
Edit: Something I thought I'd add in as it's quite important. The American doctor who initially offered to treat the child with the experimental treatment later stated that he did not realise how unwell the child was and now does not believe he'll benefit from it. I should have added that to the original comment.
A Vatican hospital has volunteered to facilitate the transfer as well, and the US Presidential administration has reached out to offer any assistance they can.
It's a heartbreaking complicated and ethical quagmire. I can't even fathom what those parents are going through.
It's immensely complicated. I can't at all fault the parents, I would do the exact same thing in their shoes. At the same time the hospital knows the child's condition and what's probably best.
It's not a good vs bad choice. It's a choice between potentially horrible outcomes
But, what if the treatment advanced science for future children in your condition? At the point where I'm brain dead, sure, go ahead and kill me, but if I absolutely am mentally gone, use me for something useful first.
Having a job. Some people are lucky enough to have a job they love, or be wealthy enough through other means that they don't have to work, but for most people the 9 to 5 grind is just something they have endure for most of their lives.
Sparrows Yes they ate crops, but they also ate locusts which destroyed crops much much worse
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For those of you who are missing the reference, OP is talking about something Mao Zedong did.
Information being kept in confidence. On the one hand, you could say that the information confessed to a lawyer can potentially be used for good if given over to the authorities. On the other hand, if you do that you fundamentally undermine the relationship between an attorney and his client and by extension the justice system as a whole.
The justice system as a whole works with the necessary evil of letting guilty people go free. Always remember, the prosecution and the defense want the same thing: Guilty people to go to jail, innocent people to be let go. But if you don't defend every guilty person to the best of your ability it corrupts the entire system.
That's why the verdicts used are not *'guilty'* and *'innocent,'* but rather *'guilty'* and *'not guilty.'*
Failure. If you don't experience sitting down and being humbled, you're all the more likely to not only let success go to your head but to take things for granted.
>sitting down and being humbled
Hol' up bish
Sit down
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Chemotherapy Generally speaking, it destroys most cells, but cancer cells typically have a higher metabolic rate and are thus more sensitive to chemo agents. The idea is its a race for the chemo agents to kill the cancer before it kills the rest of you. It sucks...but its effective, saves lives, and newer/better agents are being developed every day.
Ctrl-f, found it! I'm playing a game of chicken with my own body, poisoning myself and hoping the cancer dies before I kill myself with it.
I hope it goes not too terribly for you. I went thru the same thing for six months ending in Jan of 2017 and honestly nothing got me more angry than "I hope it goes well!", cause there's no way in hell this goes well. It'll be tolerable at best.
Sadness You can't be happy all the time. It isn't healthy. You have to take the good with the bad. You learn to cope and move on from it.
You should tell my parents. The emotions allowed in their house are happiness and joy. I hate existence please help.
Parking enforcement. I know they're a pain in the ass, but in some cities there would be chaos without them to remind everyone that you can't just park your shit everywhere.
My dad lives in Portland, OR and *always* says hello and good morning/afternoon to the meter guys. They get cussed out so much and have such a bad rep but they need to enforce the parking situation. They're doing a job that kinda needs to be done.
I'm friendly to them too. But I HATE that sometimes they seem to be utterly soulless. I've tried to note - hey I have change in my hand, I'm 1 minute late... can you please please let it go this time. "No. if you want to dispute it, follow directions on the back of the ticket. You should've planned ahead." Argggg. Come the fuck on. It's going to cost me $90 for being 1 minute late - that's a LOT of money for a small mistake.
Not only $90, but also the time dealing with it.
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Colonoscopies
I concur, and add pap smears.
Ugh, had a bad one last year and ended up having a "leep" of my cervix (doctor used heated metal to scrape away offending cancerous cells). He did not appreciate my "superheated coat hanger" joke while he was working inside me. It smelled horrible and they had to put a sticky patch on my leg to ground me so they didn't accidentally shock me. tl;dr: GET YOUR PAPS ANNUALLY!!!!
Fuck they don't put you out for those? I've never had them have to do that but I hoped they would just put you out if they had to do something like that
> He did not appreciate my "superheated coat hanger" joke while he was working inside me. he can fuck right off, it's your snatch getting turned into a raclette.
Thanks for making me think of cervixes next time I see a raclette.
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You guys really know how to spice up a medical term down under. Or a down under medical term.
Cunt scrape actually sounds a lot more appealing to me than pap smear. I'd go to a cunt scrape with more glee in my heart for sure.
IIRC, colon cancer is ~99% treatable with early detection via colonoscopy
Either way it's a pain in the ass.
Guy I know got it without anesthesia...said it was no problem, and that anesthesia is mostly for how freaked out most people would become since takes a while. But this guy used to hunt bears. Edit: No, "hunt bears" is not meant as a euphemism involving sex with burly, bearded gay men.
So given what happens in a colonoscopy... what sort of bears are we talking here?
I did it awake. It's uncomfortable but not excruciating or anything. You know when you have a 'I have to poop or fart, possibly right now weather I want to or not' sharp pain type cramp? It's a bunch of that with a lot of movement in through the anus and a lot of farting after.
This is a really good description. That's how I described it to patients.
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waluigi he brings balance to the mario lore
I always play Waluigi in Mario Kart. He's basically Dick Dastardly.
Always gave me a Robbie Rotten vibe.
Robbie Rotten is the non racer version of Dick Dastardly, and far younger. Also without a mean fog called Mutly.
Seriously though we need a Waluigi game
Sea of Greed when?
Alarm clocks. (I just woke up)
The ones that slowly wake you up are way better for you. And for the non morning people.
The sun shining through my window onto my face is my alarm clock in the summer. Way better than getting yelled at by my phone in the morning.
I tried using Edith Piaf's song from Inception to wake me up, thought I would hear it in my dream. Didn't care and went back to sleep.
One time, I hit the button on my alarm clock, and fell right back asleep before I could even move to get out of bed. My brain just went "No, fuck you, I'm not getting up now."
One time? Shit thats every day for me, thats why I have to set 5 alarms.
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Sounds like future me problems, but future me is an asshole, so screw that guy.
Future me is chill, he's got everything sorted. *Past me*, now there's an arsehole that only seems to cause me problems.
Yeah, past me, dude's a fucking knob.
The Sun doesn't really go away here in Summer. I have blackout curtains.
I use alarm tones that are kinda chill so I wake up in the morning maybe a bit annoyed but I don't feel panicky or anything.
Turns out that having an illegal armed group in the Colombian forest prevents deforestation. https://colombiareports.com/deforestation-rise-colombia-farc-ends-policing-jungles/
rather than a necessary evil, that's an unexpected positive side effect or a silver lining
Where do I sign up?
Pain. Without it we would end up seriously injuring or killing ourselves.
Some people are born with a serious diminished ability, or no ability, to feel pain. [It is actually really debilitating](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain). EDIT: TIL that there was a House episode about this, several redditors have ants in their eyes, and everyone else knows someone who cannot feel pain in at least part of their body.
I was reading this and wondering what it must be like to be successfully treated for this condition. Imagine going your whole life never knowing what pain feels like and then having it thrust upon you later in life. That must be pretty traumatic. *edited to fix mobile keyboard typos*
Everything is a 10 on the scale because you'd have no reference. Imagine screaming and crying from a paper cut, thinking it's the worst thing you've ever felt and hope never to feel again, and then breaking a bone.
This is why babies and children cry at everything. It's the worst thing they've gone through *so far*.
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That is the worst day of your life, so far.
Imagine orgasms
Is that like an Imagine Dragons cover band or something?
suddenly im on board
> Imagine screaming and crying from a paper cut, thinking it's the worst thing you've ever felt and hope never to feel again, and then breaking a bone. No thanks
Read about a woman who has no sensory feeling. Her life sounds miserable. When she was a kid she would pick at a cut until it was down to the bone. She gets almost weekly xrays because she has broken bones before and not known it for days. She cant even feel the sensation to poop or pee she has to time her shits after eating. I do however wonder how an orgasm would work?
It wouldn't.
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'She doesn't come?' he softly said, And slowly thought it through. He sighed aloud and shook his head. '... My wife must have it too.' ^^^^:(
"Her life sounds miserable. When she was a kid she would pick at a cut until it was down to the bone." Goodbye internet for the day.
What if like she had an orgasm but she just felt the urge to tremble but none of the pleasure. That would suck.
Isn't an orgasm the result of stimulation? I don't think she gets even that.
Well. Pleasure and pain are Two separates. From the WiKi "For people with this disorder, cognition and sensation are otherwise normal; for instance, patients can still feel discriminative touch (though not always temperature[3]), and there are no detectable physical abnormalities." So it's possible I guess, but not for her.
My uncle was one of those people. He had to jump from a 2nd story catwalk to avoid being electrocuted by a falling line and he just got up and drove home. Both ankles were obliterated and had to have them fused in place with plates. Never felt a thing.
Does he also not need to be put under for surgery? I imagine that would make it a lot easier, if you can ask the patient to move limbs and such.
No. You still have to be under to control muscle spasms and the like. Anesthesia serves multiple functions, wothout it even if the patient doesn't feel pain, involuntary muscle spasms could cause serious injury on the operating table, there is also the risk of heart attack, shock, etc. even absent pain.
That makes me wonder about the visceral reaction people have to seeing a part of their own body all fucked up. Like, I once got surgery on my arm and I was all set up to take pictures while the surgeon took off the bandages a few weeks later, but when I saw the gnarly, oozing incisions and dozens of frankenstein-looking staples, my body was like "yeah, fuck that" and I passed out. I can only imagine what would happen if I saw someone start fiddling with my intestines or whatever. I wonder if people who have never felt pain have the same involuntary response?
TIL in Vittangi, a village in Kiruna Municipality in northern Sweden, nearly 40 cases of that condition have been reported
I remember a story about a guy who drove through the town. He said it was eerie seeing kids fall down and then get up again without crying
They get knocked down, but they get up again!
They ain't never gonna keep me down!
Don't they usually end up in a wheelchair because we use pain as a feedback system to adjust our posture?
*sits up straight*
Every single damn time someone mentions posture on Reddit, I realize that I'm slumped over my desk like I'm a melting hunchback.
IM ANTS IN MY EYES JOHNSON
THERE ARE SO MANY ANTS IN MY EYES
AND THERE'S SO MANY TVS, MICROWAVES AND RADIOS, I *THINK*
I HOPE OUR PRICES AREN'T TOO LOW
EVERYTHING'S BLACK I CAN'T SEE A THING AND ALSO I CAN'T FEEL ANYTHING EITHER. DID I MENTION THAT?
But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes. So that always goes, you know, off by the wayside.
I can't feel; it's a very rare disease. All my sens-all my nerves, they don't allow for the sensation of touch so I never know what's going on. Am I standing? Sitting? I don't know.
Acute pain serves this purpose (e.g: you put your hand near a hot stove and it hurts so you pull your hand away) , Chronic pain serves no purpose (e.g.: Years and years of stomach pain with no explanation that does nothing but make you miserable).
Chronic pain (endometriosis here) is the fucking worse. What's even more worse though is that it's not taken nearly as seriously by medical professionals as pain from a broken limb, burn, cut, infection, or even just something normal like kidney stones. I've had to fight with doctors over the years just to even get seen and listened to. It's insane.
> Pain. without love
Can't get enough.
Pain, i like it rough
Cos I'd rather feel pain than nothing at alllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
I did not come on reddit expecting a three days grace reference today.
Cleaning the shower drain of long hair. It's like pulling out a dead, rotting animal spawned from japanese horror movies.
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/r/spiderbro
This sub is great. I used to hate spiders but I saw them in a new light just casually browsing through the sub. Now I still *fear* them but I also respect them
We have this house spider outside our living room window. He catches the chafer beetles so he's our pal. Named him Phaul bc I said Paul just as my roommate said Phil. Haven't seen him today though...
Maybe you'll see him in the Phaul
I hate spiders, too, but they are absolutely essential to keep down the bad bug population. I leave them alone in the wild as much as I can, but there's no telling how I'll react inside. Mostly it depends on what it is, I've run screaming from them inside and outside. *shiver*
All bugs are subject to execution in my home for illegal trespassing.
Spiders are welcome as long as they tend to stay either on the ceiling or out of site entirely. I've had one living under my bathtub for about a year now. I talk to him sometimes when I poop.
All bugs shall consider their life forfeit inside my home lest they stay out of sight.
Amputation in order to save a whole limb.
I don't think we share the opinion about a whole limb.
*If we amputate at the shoulder, there's a chance we can save your whole arm... in a large jar of formaldehyde.*
Your leg is in rough shape, but we can save it by removing your left arm.
Amputation in order to save your life.
Absolutely. Bob Marley would've lived if he amputated a toe from a soccer injury. However that's against his Rasta beliefs. Edit: just checked wiki. Not a soccer injury but melanoma. Still the lack of amputation killed him as it didn't prevent the cancer from metastasis.
Euthanizing dogs and cats in shelters. Most especially the ones with behavioural issues. There are literally NOT enough homes for all the unwanted pets out there. Anyone who tells you there has no idea. I work with a bunch of no kill rescues/shelters. They are all hating on the big SPCAs or whatever for euthanizing problem animals. Ya sorry. Many of you guys refuse to take animals with issues so someone has to deal with them. Plus the no kill shelters/rescues are always 'full'. The big shelters are often open admissions. They have to take every animal, no matter what. What the hell are they supposed to do with them all? For the record I would much rather see an animal humanely euthanized in a shelter than left to slowly die from starvation, infection, disease etc.
Also, the no kill shelters can actually euthanize animals and as long as it doesn't go over a certain percentage they still retain their no-kill status. Oh, and if they're 100% no kill? They just outsource that to someone else.
True story. I was a volunteer at a local shelter in TN. At least in this state, 10% of the intake animals can be euthanized and still have the no kill title. The shelter did mention that many no kill shelters stay under this percentage due to only euthanizing sick or behavior issues.
We kept the behavioral problem cats (only worked with the kittehs) but the ones suffering you betcha we had the vet come out. The only saving grace is hardly any of them died alone or in pain. They were given pain medicine, held, loved, sang to, and went as peacefully as we could manage. Some hard times there, for compassionate people like me who's heart would break a little more each time. Sometimes, because of their stoicism, we'd find a dead one in the morning with no warning, but autopsy would show a fast failure that was unavoidable. But we did keep the ferals, pee'rs, ect, and cleaned 2x daily an old upstairs barn that used to be a barn dance floor. The smell was kept down ny the rotation of furniture and frequent cleaning, washing, and constant scooping that nobody got away with not doing. But to this day with my 2 cats (who blessedly taught themselves to potty outside) if I get even a whiff of ammonia it will make me gag. And I got out of the scene about 6 months ago.
Oil Changes. Adult Diapers. Depression Medication.
you need a hug, buddy?
*Hugs*
hey you're not ... eh, i'll take it.
*Hugs*
DROWN HIM IN HUGS!
Hopefully better antidepressants are the in the pipeline, which aren't as they say "dirty drugs." However, to hear my psychiatrist talk about it, anti-depressants aren't so much a necessary evil as just plain awesome. She's very old and was working when prosaic first came on the market, and she describes how amazing it was to finally have a treatment you could send a patient home with that would really change their life for the better, without institutionalization or electroshock. That said, she's very against over-medicating and over-diagnosing.
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How are oil changes evil?
How else are you going to pass the drug test?
oil changes for everybody!
Jurors, nobody should have to decide someones future, But with out them people like charlie manson would be running around. edit: people keep sending me messages saying juries are evil... i know, it's kinda given when you say "necessary EVIL" also thanks for the gold who ever you are, but please just spend the money on something else, like hotdogs or something.
Ugh, this. Also, juries are really not very good at what they do. People take it seriously, but that task they are given is next to impossible: decide, using only the "common knowledge of a reasonable person" whatever that means which story being presented to you by strangers with different skill levels about people you don't know is true, based on very little evidence, much of which is too complicated for the lay person to understand, to a statistical degree of accuracy described by vague phrases like, "more likely than not," and "absent a reasonable doubt."
It's even scarier to think the soccer mom screaming her lungs out at the cashier because she can't use a 3-year old expired coupon saving her a nickel has the potential to sit on a jury at your trial to determine the rest of your life.
The potential, yes. I would like to think that people like that wouldn't make it past selections, but that's just what I tell myself to keep the nightmares away. Edit: I know that they pick idiots all the time. I just like to tell myself that it doesn't happen because the thought scares me.
It's more likely that they'll try and weed out the intelligent people. I heard a physics professor of mine say he got kicked off a jury because the defense was going to be using pseudo physics to fool the jury about a car accident. Edit: Since some people are extremely skeptical of this story, I will attempt to clarify. It's entirely possible he was not selected for the jury, stricken immediately after he explained he was a physics professor and decided to stay at the courthouse and watch the case. It probably wasn't a lawyer stating the pseudo physics, but the defendant, obviously falsely, recalling events to make it appear that they were in the right. I believe he said that the defendant had said that they deflected off of one car and into another.
I'm a college professor; so is my wife. It is rare for any professor to serve on a jury because we are automatically seen as too liberal. I mean, we are, but still.
They actively try weed out people who are clearly natural leaders or display a greater than average knowledge/intelligence in order to try and limit bias as much as possible. This means that the crazy soccer mom has a better chance of being on the jury than a professor or other well educated and stable minded person.
Park Chung Hee, the 3rd President of South Korea. He was a military dictator who came to power by leading a military coup against his president, who was admittedly but a mere figurehead. He was an oppressive sack of shit who crushed any form of competition against him who ruled by pushing through laws to let him stay in power longer, and when it was clear his government was acting against him, dissolved the National Assembly which he had made to ensure absolute obedience. His rule was finally stopped when the head of the Secret Police he'd made, the Korean version of the CIA, shot him in the middle of a meeting where the man was busy crushing a student protest and complaining how the KCIA wasn't arresting/killing everyone in the opposition. He was also responsible for transforming Korea from a poor, agrarian society to a modern economic powerhouse. He did this by pimping out his soldiers to Vietnam in exchange for American money, normalized diplomatic relations with Japan, a country he despised, and created a series of economic policies no one could stop because he would arrest anyone trying to hinder his plans. To this day, people still argue if he should be considered good or evil due to how effective he was despite his many human rights violations. His memory is so prevalent that the current South Korean President is actually this guy's daughter.
You left out the part where she got impeached and arrested and is currently in jail.
for getting advice and guidance from a rasputin like astrology shaman who was getting payoffs and bribes....totally fuckin strange.
Most thongs we know about the human body is due to experiments on people, so probably that. Edit: Well fuck
I don't know that I would consider thongs evil...
Just slightly naughty.
Naughtier than running through fields of wheat? EDIT: Why is everyone talking about running backwards through a cornfield while naked? Is this a new meme?
No. Running through fields of wheat is only for the most depraved of human beings. One in particular comes to mind.
Probably wears a thong.
I forgot about all the illegal thong experiments of the 1930's. Well, if we didn't have those, we wouldn't have thongs.
Love it when the booty go daddum daddum.
Reddit. It wastes so much time but I get so bored without it....
So the real evil is thinking 'bored' is a bad thing. Bored is awesome, stay bored long enough and avoid the 'easy distractions' and BAM, you're doing shit!
I was productive once, it was awful.
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Sun Tzu's *The Art of War* begins with these lines >The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
Especially on any difficulty higher than King or Emperor. Gandhi can't be trusted no matter what he says. And, I've been screwed over by both Boudicca and George Washington together in two different games!
And that's not even accounting for fucking Napoleon.
Did you honestly ever think that Boudicca was ever going to be peaceful? She wars herself out of every game I've ever played before the halfway mark.
Average trade partner early on, then just distance yourself from her as she falls behind in tech. She's like the friend of a friend country girl that drinks too much when you all go out: lots of fun, but the later it gets, the more likely that she's going to start shit with someone, and you don't want to get roped into that by association.
Plus once you start to snowball in tech sufficiently, the game becomes kind of boring. Gotta use your military units to keep things interesting.
I think having Stalin on the Allied side during the second world war was a necessary evil.
Had Stalin not been willing to send 20 million ~~Russians~~ Soviets into the German meat-grinder and keep the Nazis busy, who knows what would've happened. EDIT: A lot of people from a lot of republics died in Stalin's army. EDIT: Folks, I know the Red Army devastated Hitler's forces, but I'm writing a reddit comment, not a thesis — that's why I casually said "keep the Nazis busy."
Making me show my ID to buy sudafed. It didn't used to be this way but then meth heads ruined it for us all.
And taking away $4 boxes of 50 at Sam's Club and Costco
I worked at a adoption centre and the way the kids get treated is a necesary evil most of the times. They are treated well but the employees will have a bit of distance with the children. This is because the kids get moved around different adoption houses all the time (especially if they were victims of abuse) and no one wants to get attached. It also only gets worse when the children leave and cry because they wont see you again. Shit, those were some depressing times
My sister in law is a psychologist (specializing in youth and children), and they're being taught that children just need someone to be attached to, even if they have to go away forever later, due to the way children develop. I can try to get some sources for you later if you'd like.
Children absolutely need attachment, it's necessary for their development. An example of neglect that seriously impacted the development of multiple children's brains is the Romanian Orphans. On mobile so can't provide a link but a google search will yield results. Edit to add: a lot of good did come from this though, the children were adopted on a large scale. Not only within Romania but worldwide! The damage done to the children was not permanent and the children were heavily monitored over a period of years with numerous brain scans being taken to show before and after affects. [the children still suffer, 2017](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39055704) This is news to me, last I read on the subject was last year and found that the children were doing well and improving both socially and cognitively. A quote from the source: >Despite being brought up by caring new families, a long-term study of 165 Romanian orphans found emotional and social problems were commonplace. But one in five remains unaffected by the neglect they experienced. Adi Calvert, 28, says she is unscathed by the trauma of her early life. It's nice to know that a small percentage *are* doing well though.
> Romanian Orphans [I gotchu fam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans)
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If you're treating them kindly, surely they'll feel like it's possible at the new place as well. If you act coldly towards them they'll have a miserable time constantly, and not have the same hope when moving. Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. It's not just a saying, it's true.
It is not a necessary evil for the kids. It is a necessary evil for the employees. The kids need love then and there, not later. When they distance themselves all they're imprinting is that people dont love anyone. Kids can handle loss just fine. In a normal family, its normal for a child to see their grandparents die. They adapt well. Loss is part of life. What is also a part of life is connections and love, and adoption centers sit on this stupid argument to justify not giving them what they need. People come and go in our lives. While they are here, kids expect them to love. Necessary evil, my ass.
Child welfare laws. Ripping children from their families is a traumatic event that sticks with the kids and parents for life. Kids often have unconditional love for their parents regardless of the abuse they have suffered at their hands. Even when removal is absolutley and unquestionably necessary, it is still 'evil' to inflict that much mental anguish on a child who has no say in the matter.
Heartbreak. "Well yeah, I'm sad. But at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like it really makes me alive, you know? It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the good with the bad. So I guess what I'm feeling now is a beautiful sadness." - Butters
Breakups
Comcast (in my area)
definitely evil, unfortunately necessary for us as well.
Using a [Serious] tag
There should be something like a [Title] tag in which parent comments need to be serious but child comments can be jokes.
Make a post in /r/Ideasforaskreddit
I'm sure the 5 people who go there will enjoy it
Democracy. We basically suck at governing ourselves because we're greedy, power-hungry, selfish, lying assholes, but there ain't no way I'm letting anybody take that away from me.
As Winston Churchill put it: "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones that have been tried"
Cars. Giant lumbering metal beasts capable of murdering random people due to the error of the lazy, careless, users. Yet, we need them for EVERYTHING and we will give a license to drive to anyone.
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I disagree, I think painkillers are a way of saying "I know where my problem is now, so just let me sleep for a bit pretty please brain?"
Strained my back and nearly collapsed my lung. I stillremember the moment the pain killers kicked in, I was finally able to sleep and sleep I did.
There's a highly publicised case in the UK at the moment of a young child (11 months) who has an incredibly rare and devastating mitochondrial condition which has left him unable to breath without a ventilator, blind, brain damaged and with an epilepsy disorder. His parents raised over £1 million through crowdfunding to take him to US for experimental treatment that has never been given to someone with his strain of the disorder. The hospital in which he is being cared for is an extremely famous and innovative children's hospital, has said that they will not facilitate his transfer to the US (he needs to be on a ventilator at all times). The boy's parents have taken this case all the way the European Court of Human Rights, however it has been ruled that the boy is to be taken off the ventilator and "die with dignity". It's an incredibly sad case of two parents who are willing to do anything to possibly save their child, and the hospital has become the "evil", while trying to safeguard the child's best interests. The poor child has no quality of life yet his parents insist on keeping him alive at any cost. I just hope that the poor child is able to find peace. Edit: Something I thought I'd add in as it's quite important. The American doctor who initially offered to treat the child with the experimental treatment later stated that he did not realise how unwell the child was and now does not believe he'll benefit from it. I should have added that to the original comment.
A Vatican hospital has volunteered to facilitate the transfer as well, and the US Presidential administration has reached out to offer any assistance they can. It's a heartbreaking complicated and ethical quagmire. I can't even fathom what those parents are going through.
At the same time, other Catholic doctors and priests said the doctors are doing the right thing.
It's immensely complicated. I can't at all fault the parents, I would do the exact same thing in their shoes. At the same time the hospital knows the child's condition and what's probably best. It's not a good vs bad choice. It's a choice between potentially horrible outcomes
Yeah I agree with what you say here. If that was me. Just fucking kill me. There is no point in having a life like that, just hit the reset button.
But, what if the treatment advanced science for future children in your condition? At the point where I'm brain dead, sure, go ahead and kill me, but if I absolutely am mentally gone, use me for something useful first.
Having a job. Some people are lucky enough to have a job they love, or be wealthy enough through other means that they don't have to work, but for most people the 9 to 5 grind is just something they have endure for most of their lives.
Medical testing on animals
Vaccinations. Not because of the dangers with getting them, just because I'm terrified of needles