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[Zifnab]

Yes, he can do these things legally, but the spirit of the original post was whether it was his duty to continue to save lives, or if he should just say, "screw it, lets make some money"

[AtomicPaperclip]

I wouldn't say it was mandatory for him to be a surgeon and save lives in the first place. Who is to say he HAS to defy nature and save lives?

It's not like he made them sick.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Yeah, a general surgeon and a cosmetic surgeon require seperate training. So your situation dosen't work.

[ChairmanPoo]

maybe there is some recycling alternative that doesnt involve doing the full residency again (given that you're not exactly starting from point 0), but yeah, it's not straightfowardly interchangeable.

[Josephus]

Yes, he can do these things legally, but the spirit of the original post was whether it was his duty to continue to save lives, or if he should just say, "screw it, lets make some money"

Can't he do both?

"Oh. My. God. I swear, I'll die if I can't get my boobs enlarged."

[RAM]

The only thing that can decide if someone will die or not is if they are alive or not. So you can only really work on life expectancies. And realistically, a diligent and honest environmental protection officer can probably rack up more life years than any surgeon...

[Nikov]

By this sort of logic, every farmer in the United States is a murderer because he is alotted permitted tobacco acreage based on his total acreage, and either by growing or simply selling his permitted acres he participates in the most lethal industry in the world. Then by your inaction as a member of society who is not burning farms and sabotaging tobacco warehouses, you are also an accomplice.

I think this is a pretty silly discussion. A surgeon doesn't have a duty to operate on patients any more than a student has a duty to become a surgeon. The only person truely responsible for if they live after a heart attack or not is the person who has the heart attack. If responsibility for an individual's welfare falls on anyone but that individual, we start going down the road to a nanny state.

[RAM]

But some of us like nanny states...

[Nikov]

But some of us enjoy living in our parent's basement...

Fixed.

[Retro]

Yes, because clearly living in a country that provides health care to its citizens is the equivalent of living in your parents' basement. Yes. That is exactly a perfect analogy.

[RAM]

But some of us enjoy living in our parent's basement...

Your parents have basements? In my day we were lucky to have an excrement pit between 10 hovels. And our hovels weren't like modern hovels, they were strips of bark, held together by Poison Ivy. At least, that was what the rumours said, we never got to see the hovels, we were envious of the folk living in the pit! And your spoilt with your parents, we didn;t have parents, instead we were made in a factory, from used parts! That didn't even match! Why, I got two left feet, Kevin just had a toe at the end of his stump, and we were the lucky ones!

[Jackrabbit]

Also, troll harder.

[Vester]

But some of us enjoy living in our parent's basement...

Your parents have basements? In my day we were lucky to have an excrement pit between 10 hovels. And our hovels weren't like modern hovels, they were strips of bark, held together by Poison Ivy. At least, that was what the rumours said, we never got to see the hovels, we were envious of the folk living in the pit! And your spoilt with your parents, we didn;t have parents, instead we were made in a factory, from used parts! That didn't even match! Why, I got two left feet, Kevin just had a toe at the end of his stump, and we were the lucky ones!

Stop describing my country's average living conditions.

[RedKing]

I see we've picked up a new wanker while I was away on business. Or did Andir just change his name?

[Phmcw]

Nikov, aren't you supposed to be a Christian somewere along the line?
I'm pretty sure that charity and helping your equals is not optional.
And taking freedom as an excuse isn't going to help your cause.
You know you're believing in a god that will judge you on how you lived, right?