From: Louis Newstrom (louisnews@comcast.net)
Date: Tue Mar 19 2002 - 05:33:13 MST
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
> Your response doesn't seem to be quite what is going on
...
> If doctors were being regulated to only necessary surgery
> then liposuction and plastic surgery would not be performed for
> as many reasons
I don't think the mindset is that surgery is "necessary" if it restores what
is considered "normal". Liposuction and plastic surgery are done to
"restore" a person to normal-ness. Plastic surgery started by correcting
gross deformities. After a while, even a millimeter imperfection was
allowed to be corrected. I suspect that a plastic surgeon who gave someone
three eyes or pointed ears would be frowned upon, maybe even have their
license revoked.
(I am not defending this point of view. I am just stating that this is what
I think is going on.)
> No, the underlying goal, whether voiced or not, is to avoid
> "unfair" multiplication of ability when it is applied to
> artificial enhancements.
I don't think this is concious in the mind of doctors, but I will agree that
it is a concious decision in sports. You can't take any drugs. Think of
the uproar if someone with (superior) artificial limbs were to win in some
sport!
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