Annoyance comments on Religion, Mystery, and Warm, Soft Fuzzies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Annoyance 17 May 2009 02:46:09AM 0 points [-]

Being responsible and engaging in malpractice are two different things.

We might not say that a surgeon violated any of the proprieties, yet still hold that he failed to save a patient; the alternative seems to be saying that the death was fated and it was "his time to go".