Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[crazy canuck]

And right on cue, we get the bromide of the slippery slope. Well done.

 

What's the idiom bromide means here? I googled it but it only raised more questions.

I am not sure if this is a dictionary definition, but it is often used as a term to describe an old trite justification that doesn't really stand up to scrutiny.  But repeat it enough times and people start to believe it.

Slippery slope arguments are one of the best examples.

"I don't trust doctors" is a specific example here. 

[crazy canuck]

You appear to have much more faith in the accuracy of the medical profession and NHS than I do.

Yeah - I fairly sympathise with Jason Okundaye's take: "my position on assisted dying is I agree with it but I don't agree with this country doing it".

 

You just can't have a reasoned debate when someone is employing that kind of "logic".

[garbon]

You appear to have much more faith in the accuracy of the medical profession and NHS than I do.

Yeah - I fairly sympathise with Jason Okundaye's take: "my position on assisted dying is I agree with it but I don't agree with this country doing it".

 

You just can't have a reasoned debate when someone is employing that kind of "logic".

Nor can you have a conversation when you're so quick to dismiss people you don't even consider their experiences.

[crazy canuck]

Nor can you have a conversation when you're so quick to dismiss people you don't even consider their experiences.

First, your experiences with getting treated for ailments does not in any way equip you to make any judgments about the ability of doctors to deal with issues related to MAID.

Second, if you want to talk about more relevant experience, I have seen a close family member in palliative care living in agony, dosed on pain killing drugs which didn't really work, for months. Until mercifully someone likely gave a bit too much pain killer and the pain came to an end.

That all happened years before the Supreme Court of Canada required the Federal government to bring in MAID legislation in Canada. 

[garbon]

Nor can you have a conversation when you're so quick to dismiss people you don't even consider their experiences.

First, your experiences with getting treated for ailments does not in any way equip you to make any judgments about the ability of doctors to deal with issues related to MAID.

Second, if you want to talk about more relevant experience, I have seen a close family member in palliative care living in agony, dosed on pain killing drugs which didn't really work, for months. Until mercifully someone likely gave a bit too much pain killer and the pain came to an end.

That all happened years before the Supreme Court of Canada required the Federal government to bring in MAID legislation in Canada. 

So as I said you are unwilling to learn about experiences others have had. You just presume what they are.

[crazy canuck]

Nor can you have a conversation when you're so quick to dismiss people you don't even consider their experiences.

First, your experiences with getting treated for ailments does not in any way equip you to make any judgments about the ability of doctors to deal with issues related to MAID.

Second, if you want to talk about more relevant experience, I have seen a close family member in palliative care living in agony, dosed on pain killing drugs which didn't really work, for months. Until mercifully someone likely gave a bit too much pain killer and the pain came to an end.

That all happened years before the Supreme Court of Canada required the Federal government to bring in MAID legislation in Canada. 

So as I said you are unwilling to learn about experiences others have had. You just presume what they are.

Not really, you have been pretty open with your experiences in the back room.  Granted, there may be something more recent.  But I really doubt you are currently a candidate for MAID, and so I am still not sure what your experience with another part of the health sector has to do with this issue.

It seems to me you are the one making some pretty big assumptions based on your limited experience.

[Josquius]

Cool fact I've heard.
New transport secretary Heidi Alexander being appointed means for the first time ever the cabinet is 100% state educated :flatcap: