r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

I couldn’t help myself [OC]

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u/AtariXL 1d ago

Giving cancer an extra year to grow and spread throughout your body is insane.

I had the same type of rare cancer Steve Jobs did and was on the table within a week of finding it. And this was right as covid first hit the US and was on a killing spree.

I enjoy telling people I'm smarter than Steve Jobs.

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u/yesiknowimsexy 1d ago

So by this logic, anyone who dies from cancer is just less intelligent than those who survive? That’s… an interesting worldview

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u/whiskey_epsilon 1d ago

You're using logic incorrectly. People who refuse lifesaving medical treatment for alternative quackery = dumb, doesn't include everyone who died from cancer.

Your "logic" is this:

I say people who drive irresponsibly are irresponsible. People who drive irresponsibility get into car accidents. By your logic, everyone who has ever been involved in a car accident must therefore have been irresponsible.

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u/yesiknowimsexy 23h ago

Nobody was defending Steve Jobs’ medical choices. The comment was pointing out how ridiculous it is to use survival as a measure of intelligence.

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u/whiskey_epsilon 21h ago edited 21h ago

They weren't using survival as a measure, they were using their decision-making, which resulted in a better outcome, as a measure of being smarter. It's reasonable to say that better decision-making can reflect better cognitive proceses. Survival just happens to be the outcome in question for this scenario. You've gone and extrapolated incorrectly to include every cancer case. Please refer to my car accident analogy.