RE: Boy flees Mexico to avoid chemo due in part to religious beliefs.
May 22, 2009 at 2:36 pm
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2009 at 2:52 pm by etogre.)
Natural selection has been dead since the industrial revolution. Maybe even before that, but that's what really flipped the bitch on evolution.
I'm an entrepreneur, and I can tell you people will believe just about anything you tell them as long as you sound confident and convincing. People are, on the whole, incredibly stupid and gullible. Not that I use my skills for evil, I'm far too bound by my superstitions of karma to do that, but that's why numb-skulls like these people in the story don't surprise me at all.
I mean, they're dead set convinced that a religion invented by a con-man in 2000 will heal their son's cancer with roots and herbs and hokus pokus. That's all fine and dandy, but at the same time they opt out of the 90% chance of surviving that chemo would give him. It really doesn't get any stupider than that.
I'm an entrepreneur, and I can tell you people will believe just about anything you tell them as long as you sound confident and convincing. People are, on the whole, incredibly stupid and gullible. Not that I use my skills for evil, I'm far too bound by my superstitions of karma to do that, but that's why numb-skulls like these people in the story don't surprise me at all.
I mean, they're dead set convinced that a religion invented by a con-man in 2000 will heal their son's cancer with roots and herbs and hokus pokus. That's all fine and dandy, but at the same time they opt out of the 90% chance of surviving that chemo would give him. It really doesn't get any stupider than that.
