Just For The Records

"Elle" wrote
What do you advise a person who is told by two, independent competent vets
that the bills for his/her cat will run over $5000 in the next year for
the
disease the cat has; the cat may not live beyond a year; the person can't
afford the $5000 without jeopardizing her recently diagnosed asthmatic
son's
health, but reasons that, with the $200 s/he does have, she can euthanize
the first cat and adopt two new cats?


That would be an unhealthy cat. There is a difference between an unhealthy
cat that has an uncertain future and not much chance to recover, and a
perfectly healthy, but disabled cat (blind, deaf, missing a leg, etc) that
can lead a pretty normal life.

Why do people always have to bring up these Sophie's Choice scenarios?

--
-Kelly

"KellyH" wrote
"Elle" wrote
What do you advise a person who is told by two, independent competent
vets
that the bills for his/her cat will run over $5000 in the next year for
the
disease the cat has; the cat may not live beyond a year; the person
can't
afford the $5000 without jeopardizing her recently diagnosed asthmatic
son's
health, but reasons that, with the $200 s/he does have, she can
euthanize
the first cat and adopt two new cats?


That would be an unhealthy cat. There is a difference between an
unhealthy
cat that has an uncertain future and not much chance to recover, and a
perfectly healthy, but disabled cat (blind, deaf, missing a leg, etc) that
can lead a pretty normal life.

Why do people always have to bring up these Sophie's Choice scenarios?

Because "disabled" is a vague term. Because no one can really know how sick
or healthy a cat with a diagnosis like this is. Because rarely are these
matters black and white, and so AFAIC it's important to propose that rarely
does anyone at this board deserve to be judged on these matters, lest the
judge wish to be judged him/herself.

How'd that (agreeing with Mary) happen??????????



Karl.

You haven't thought it through ... or you're suffering from Stockholm
Syndrome.

Does that mean Mary is holding me hostage??? :/

Sure hope she doesn't tie me up, torture, and whip me!!!! What if she
makes me her nasty little "slave"? Ohhh Mary, No! Don't! Don't!!! Don't
STOP!!!!!$##@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~

bigbadbarry wrote:
Phil Sent Me an email.

So what. I don't think anyone gives a flying fig. Posting someone's
email to you is really stupid. You're acting like a child. Grow up...

"KellyH" wrote:

"Philip" wrote in message
link.net...

wrote in message
...
"bigbadbarry" wrote:

It's a common term used for writing programs (the kind of programs that
run on computers) Considering what it is used for, I think it's a very
fitting term.

No it's not.

-mhd

Yes it is.


It was probably used back in the old days when they were programming
computers with punch cards.
Husband is a software engineer and he said he's never heard that term.
I took computer programming college classes and never heard it.

Probably RPG programmers working with old Univacs :-)

-mhd

PawsForThought wrote:
bigbadbarry wrote:
Phil Sent Me an email.

So what. I don't think anyone gives a flying fig. Posting someone's
email to you is really stupid. You're acting like a child. Grow up...

sockpuppet

"Elle" wrote
Because "disabled" is a vague term. Because no one can really know how
sick
or healthy a cat with a diagnosis like this is. Because rarely are these
matters black and white, and so AFAIC it's important to propose that
rarely
does anyone at this board deserve to be judged on these matters, lest the
judge wish to be judged him/herself.


No, these matters are not black and white. I would need to know this
hypothetical cat's diagnosis, i.e. what is this mystery disease, what are
the procedures that the vet is proposing, what is the cat's overall health,
what is his current quality of life, and what is the prognosis with and
without treatment before I could make any type of judgment. You can't put
it just in terms of how much money and how long does the cat have. No need
to bring a sick kid into it, either.

If you had been following along with Phillip's post, you would see he was
not referring to these type of scenarios. He has been talking about
returning his cat with a URI to the high-kill shelter.

--
-Kelly

"Cheryl" wrote
If we're still referring to the shebang, its a line in a shell script
(UNIX) but I didn't see where it fit the conversation. LOL

It was "female logic". Have you ever heard that? I Googled it and got a
few references, but it does seem to be an antiquated term.

--
-Kelly

Phil P. wrote:
you?

Philip is a half-dead, decrepit old grump; he stated that disabled cats are
"euthanasia candatates". He and babybarry make a perfect pair of assholes-
Philip's illerate wife probably carries them together like a six-pack! LOL!

You K-Mart junkie!

Cheryl wrote:

If we're still referring to the shebang, its a line in a shell script
(UNIX) but I didn't see where it fit the conversation. LOL

I answered a snipped post and all I saw was ...

logic." Now this *is* female logic!! Wa hahahaha!

It's a common term used for writing programs
(the kind of programs that run on computers)
Considering what it is used for, I think it's
a very fitting term.

I thought someone said *female* logic was a programmer's term. Never
saw shebang and I should looked further back. Thanks for mentioning
what was being referred to.

-mhd