Chemotherapy is generally thought to be evil to the cancer (it tries to kill it) and good to the patient (it tries ultimately to cure him through killing the cancer).
While chemotherapy works against the cancer, on the other hand, Christian believers such as me believe that the holy spirit, if so requested, can fill you with life and so defeat a cancer by that means. Cedrtainly the psychology of a patient can affect the course of a disease, as wevidenced by the placebo effect. Along those lines, Jesus said "Your faith has made you whole." Prayer helps the good, chemotheraphy hurts the bad. [Roger Clough], [rclo...@verizon.net] 1/3/2013 "Forever is a long time, especially near the end." - Woody Allen ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-02, 14:13:35 Subject: Re: The evolution of good and evil On Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:57:34 PM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 02 Jan 2013, at 02:01, Craig Weinberg wrote: Chemotherapy Good or Evil? Better than nothing for most people having some disease. Worst than THC injection, plausibly for the same group of people. Here the Evil is only in the fact that minorities hides information from the majority, and this for the minority's interests. This leads to harmful consequences for the majority. Bruno I was thinking more of how chemotherapy is ambiguous as far as it being something which can enhance life by inevitably diminishing it, but sure, the politics of it is an issue also. If I had to get into a definition of good and evil I would go more toward a political direction - senseless inequality of power tends to lead to corruption and crime. Crime and corruption tends to lead to scapegoating or a misuse of sense. The combination of corrupt actions and distortion of truth to cover them up is probably as close to evil as I can think of. Evil = Abusive social contact. http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/everything-list/-/YpNqEUlQwb8J. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
