Would I trust a doctor? Absolutely. Because I could back his findings and do my own research.
How? Study medicine yourself? Do you trust the sources of the texts? Do you go back to the doctor's college transcripts?
This could go on and on and on....I grew a cyst. I had it removed. It grew back. Same spot. I did my own research and determined if he originally missed a piece it could've grown back in the allotted time. I came back and told him I was there for warranty work.
I had some weird heel pain. It was so bad at times I could barely stand. The bottom line is that after a podiatry specialist, x-rays, MRI, EMG, physical therapy, an ultrasonically applied steroid, he wanted to operate and partial sever my plantar fascia.
I did my research. I stopped going to him.
Did you get your money back? LOL . If you had done your research, you shouldn't have let it go to that point, right?
I elected to see a massage therapist. She loosened one Hell of a knot in my quadratus lumborum. She applied maybe 2 pounds of pressure and I was on the floor in tears. 2 months later I was running and jogging again.
Doctors are people. People are fallible.
Yes, they are. But you have no choice at some point to trust in them.
If I paved my own roads, what would my taxes go towards?
If you don't trust those in power, or those putting in the roads, why pay taxes???If I were in charge, I couldn't be accused of collusion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/19/nyregion/documents-show-rowland-s-ties-to-a...My own ex-governor...
I have more stories, but I'm trying to keep it concise. I never said I assume that every single law enforcement officer was bad. I'm sure there are good ones. I said I trust myself more than I trust them.
Quote:Officers hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/nyregion/08nypd.htmlI can hit a duck bowling pin at 50 feet, consistently, at least 7/8 times with my 1911, coupled with my argument regarding response time, with the fact that it's been proven in court that they don't have to protect or serve me (
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a...)
I'll take my own chances.
I don't like to consider it complacency, I prefer to think of it as being a conscientious objector.
Good for you - but that fact is, you aren't everybody. That's what a society is - it's all of us. --Steve