Hahaha!, or, On the Fallacy of Worshipping the Norm

[nuranar]

I'm sitting back and enjoying the current war controversy opinionated discussion over at little_details .  The original poster's question is, basically, If a guy back on a hypothethical earth roughly equivalent to 10,000 B.C. gets his legs mauled by a Big Nasty Animal, will his wounds get infected, and how likely/survivable is amptuation?

Until comment #10, the

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[fancyfrocks]

HA!
Because everything anyone ever writes has to be absolute truth, even though there is no such thing as absolute truth

I was actually thinking of picking up a pen again and attempting to write an Austenesque novel. I haven't written in a good five years at least. But I don't think I'll run ideas by that forum.

[fancyfrocks]

Um. so I wrote sarcasm in code <> in that entry and it didn't write it out. heh. Little did I know LJ has a sarcasm tag for html.
Obviously you know I believe in Truth and was being silly.

[nuranar]

Hehe, no worries. I know exactly what you meant. ;)

[nuranar]

I know, the irony is killing me! :D

Ooh, run it by me! :D Seriously, it's a great forum. Every once in a while people lose perspective and make it sound like something's always the case; and there are a couple people who tend to respond to others' comments, disagreeing either politely or not, and rarely volunteering their own comments. But that happens not nearly enough to make me even consider dropping it. It's really one of my favorite comms.

[suededsilk]

Heh. The post is locked now, but I can well imagine! Brings to mind some of my college classes. I generally don't comment (too much opportunity for me to stammer, stutter, and put my foot in my mouth), but some of the dumb statements and illogical extrapolations uttered by students (and teachers!) amaze me.

[nuranar]

Locked? You mean friends-locked? A lot of the posts on that comm are if they're sensitive subjects. Sorry, I didn't think of that when linking!

[suededsilk]

Yup. But that's all right - I got the gist of it. :)

[msmcknittington]

Well, obviously in the Dirt Ages, nobody would have survived double amputation, because we all know that they never took baths. Ever. And like slathered open wounds with goat dung. So yeah! Take that, people who have been dead for a thousand years! We are so much smarter than you!

Something like that, right?

[ramblin_rosie]

Drop the Summa Theologica on them instead. Much faster concussion, and might knock some common sense into them at the same time. (Bede's commentaries are BRILLIANT, though. <3)