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[Jackrabbit]

Oh my God, I actually cannot stop laughing.

I think I love you.

[smigenboger]

That was great, I haven't laughed like that since I first saw the "I am The Milkman" scene

[MetalSlimeHunt]

That's what I think he means, though if your eyes are somewhere other than on your face, they wouldn't be as receptive and couldn't be processed as fast. I guess your physical perspective of the world would change, as I'd guess you normally 'anchor' yourself at where your face is.

Our eyes are attached directly to the brain, and we still require a mental compensation system to make the resulting images show up without lag. Eye hands are just silly.

[Criptfeind]

Wow. God. I need to go pee now.

But for real, wasn't there a thread like I described? I could have sworn...

I thought it was in the mutations thread but I cant find it there.

[Nether]

Hypothetical situation.

Let's say that we have a surgeon. The best surgeon in the world. Good enough that his being at work every day unquestionably saves lives every day that he's there.

Does this surgeon have the right to the right to take a vacation?
The right to retire?

But what if by *not* doing those things, he'll push himself to exhaustion or a heart attack?

 Do we have an obligation to self-sacrifice, even if it's obviously for the greater good? At what point, during a good life, has one earned rest, not having to worry about the world anymore?

This would mean that all soldiers on this earth should go with vacation.

I believe that a person's rights are intertwined with the social pressure here. Which is wrong. This person is a person just as the persons he operates on. If we have too many patients for him then we just have to pump more money into healthcare so that there will be more doctors.
 He deserves the right to live just as the people under his knife. The fact that he already sacrifices a large part of his life to saving others (around 40 hour workweek is nothing, surgeons are on 24/7 callservice, they are already simply the most busy people I know) is more then we should expect of a human.

[Vester]

That sounds familiar as well, anyone got a link to that conversation?

Here you go. (about a week late, no less)

I can feel through arms on my eyeballs, it's not that hard, tactile rendering is sometimes easier than visual for many things even.

EDIT

Although, reading through that thread it turns out that there was a lot of interesting discussion going on in there. It just got obscured in the eyearm confusion.

[ChairmanPoo]

BTW: I was thinking: isn't it a bit paradoxical to argue that leisure time shouldn't exist in a gaming message board?

[RAM]

It is relevant...

[Criptfeind]

Here you go.

Thanks, now I feel bad for Armok though.

[Jackrabbit]

Here you go.

Thanks, now I feel bad for Armok though.

Yeah, that's common for people who don't really know him.

[Zifnab]

On the hypothetical situation:

So the surgeon has a right to go on a vacation, but does he have the right to stop doing life saving surgeries and just do boob jobs and other plastic surgeries?  Because if he does, he will make a boatload more money but the people would have operated on might die under less skillful hands.

[Zangi]

On the hypothetical situation:

So the surgeon has a right to go on a vacation, but does he have the right to stop doing life saving surgeries and just do boob jobs and other plastic surgeries?  Because if he does, he will make a boatload more money but the people would have operated on might die under less skillful hands.

Hypothetically, he can get his normal surgeon license revoked and later get one for plastic and/or boob.  Or even try to later get reinstated after a long vacation.  It really depends on how much money the surgeon has saved up and spending habits to weather the transition period.  Likely wold have to take some courses again?

Surgery comprises a lot of different fields.  Heart, brain, whatever.  Doctors/surgeons tend to specialize in 1 or 2 categories.

[Nikov]

I say he should be free to take vacations or work to death depending on his personal answer to this question.

[ChairmanPoo]

Hypothetically, he can get his normal surgeon license revoked and later get one for plastic and/or boob.

Uh, no he cant. It's a different speciality

[Zangi]

Hypothetically, he can get his normal surgeon license revoked and later get one for plastic and/or boob.

Uh, no he cant. It's a different speciality

*Insert going to university again to learn how to put plastic on people and enhancing boobs 'safely'.*

Then go to South America and set-up shop.