There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a professional to get them help, you wouldn't be encouraging them to cut off their legs.
There's the component of suffering for sure, but I think being a functional member of society is the most important. So if you don't annoy anyone with your abnormalities you are more likely to be considered sane.
"senior developer deliberately self-sabotaged side-hustle by unnecessarily using kubernetes and kafka instead of docker and rabbitmq - where his employers safe?"
Admittedly I'm not sure how an amputation fetish works. I don't know if it's about the act of amputation itself or if he liked looking at amputee porn, for example.
Like someone might have a humiliation fetish but not actually like seeing people get humiliated in the workplace, for example. A sexual context and an everyday context are very different.
The plainspoken doubt being expressed indirectly / by-analogy here is:
“Was their professional judgment impaired by their fetish?”
That concern is the correct one.
But: It doesn’t particularly matter how the fetish works, because people will assume that the existence of a fetish guarantees that judgment is compromised. That assumption will often be couched in terms of skepticism and doubt rather than as a flat statement of mistrust, especially here in the US. Unfortunately, the concern is valid, even when the frequent-but-not-always underlying assumption is not.
Has the licensing board ruled on whether or not patient abuse occurred yet?
If not, then, like, maybe don’t read this article at all. Wait for the outcomes of a professional evaluation. Don’t chase this particular ambulance. It’s not healthy to stop and admire a train wreck, and if it ends up not being a train wreck for patients, and professional care was given regardless, then it’s just gossiping about someone making irreversible physical edits to their body — a completely normal event around the world, starting at birth in many cultures, with widespread differences within each around how little/much editing is too little/much. I know HN likes to clamor about slipper slopes, and this is the sort of checkout aisle magazine headline fodder that leads to that:
Should someone who has had breast reduction surgery be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had leg lengthening surgery be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had a facelift be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had a tattoo be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had hair removal sessions be permitted to perform them?
Now, replace ‘to perform them’ with ‘to advise patients about them’; does the answer change?
Yes, amputation is ‘extreme’; so are many, many other voluntary (e.g. heart tattoos) and involuntary (e.g. dysphoria-treating surgeries) body edits. The level of concern expressed for the practitioner’s judgment should not be a function of the severity of edit, and we should always be alert for signs of corruption in those practitioners — whether it’s tattoos, leg lengthening, or limb amputation.
I wasn’t talking specifically about trans dysphoria above, but having had to navigate those guidelines personally, I can certainly attest that they prioritize societal fertility over the needs of the patient. Fourteen letters of approval and two years and $25,000 of professional consulting required (at US cash rates before insurance) to receive a single body edit out of the four required. Cis women who aren’t even trans at all can get next-day breast inflation but must pursue months of paperwork and approvals for breast reduction. Tattoos are walk-in and don’t always have sobriety requirements.
Point being, cultural biases are reflected in body edit difficulties, and each culture has their own biases and stupidities. That should not prevent us from aspiring towards a better future, where body edits are uniformly treated with care, caution, and consent — rather than condescension and Gillian’s “Brazil” levels of bureaucratic bullshit: https://youtu.be/VveTsyjFlNA
This article may have done a terrible job at advancing any useful goals in the field of body editing, but the headline sure is some top-shelf clickbait.
Because there's at least a possibility that the surgeon recommended and performed amputations in order to satisfy his own fetishes rather than to do what's best for his patients. As a doctor, he is supposed to do what is best for the patient, not himself.
If it is verified that he has performed medically unwarranted amputations, that'd probably result in some kind of criminal charge due to the grave and permanent bodily harm involved. The loss of his medical license would be the least of his problems.
The 4chan toaster meme remains undefeated.
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1695828-that-is-my-fetish
> fuck up your and countless other people's lives
FTFY.
Generalised: principle-agent problem: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...>.
Particularly where the agent has specialised knowledge and/or privileged access.
Not uncommonly an issue in IT.
A growing concern with AI, to boot: Alignment.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem>
Wow, well, that's one of the more f'd up things I've ever read about. Not sure what else there is to say.
I don't know why the framing. This is easy: review the cases. If it has his hand it's tainted one way or the other. That's it.
How is it tainted by that alone? It’s almost certain that at least some of the patients he amputated actually needed amputation.
It doesn't automatically condemn him but it will probably trigger some kind of independent review of his cases. Better hope it's a perfect record.
Could ask this about most news stories these days. They are so bold as to not even hide the opinionated framing anymore.
Why is this flagged?
Welp, that's enough internet for me today!
Warning for the squeamish: I only made it partway through the article before deciding it would probably make me nauseous if I continued.
There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
There’s also a known correlation between firefighters and arsonists
Yesterday on HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853>
> We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes
... to say nothing of the monsters that use spaces instead of tabs ;)
" We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes"
What evidence do you have to back that up? I think you're trying to pull facts out of your a* to rationalize something.
Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a professional to get them help, you wouldn't be encouraging them to cut off their legs.
> Where is the line between fetish and mental illness
In general, the DSM V draws the line at hurting yourself or other people.
There's the component of suffering for sure, but I think being a functional member of society is the most important. So if you don't annoy anyone with your abnormalities you are more likely to be considered sane.
Probably because they’re not mutually exclusive and one more accurately reflects the component of arousal.
"senior developer deliberately self-sabotaged side-hustle by unnecessarily using kubernetes and kafka instead of docker and rabbitmq - where his employers safe?"
See also, I suppose, our discussion yesterday in Firefighter arson a long-standing issue https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853
Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Would you be comfortable later finding out that the surgeon who amputated your leg had an amputation fetish?
What if that surgeon's advice had been part of the decision process that lead to you deciding to go ahead with amputation?
Admittedly I'm not sure how an amputation fetish works. I don't know if it's about the act of amputation itself or if he liked looking at amputee porn, for example.
Like someone might have a humiliation fetish but not actually like seeing people get humiliated in the workplace, for example. A sexual context and an everyday context are very different.
The plainspoken doubt being expressed indirectly / by-analogy here is:
“Was their professional judgment impaired by their fetish?”
That concern is the correct one.
But: It doesn’t particularly matter how the fetish works, because people will assume that the existence of a fetish guarantees that judgment is compromised. That assumption will often be couched in terms of skepticism and doubt rather than as a flat statement of mistrust, especially here in the US. Unfortunately, the concern is valid, even when the frequent-but-not-always underlying assumption is not.
Has the licensing board ruled on whether or not patient abuse occurred yet?
If not, then, like, maybe don’t read this article at all. Wait for the outcomes of a professional evaluation. Don’t chase this particular ambulance. It’s not healthy to stop and admire a train wreck, and if it ends up not being a train wreck for patients, and professional care was given regardless, then it’s just gossiping about someone making irreversible physical edits to their body — a completely normal event around the world, starting at birth in many cultures, with widespread differences within each around how little/much editing is too little/much. I know HN likes to clamor about slipper slopes, and this is the sort of checkout aisle magazine headline fodder that leads to that:
Should someone who has had breast reduction surgery be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had leg lengthening surgery be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had a facelift be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had a tattoo be permitted to perform them?
Should someone who has had hair removal sessions be permitted to perform them?
Now, replace ‘to perform them’ with ‘to advise patients about them’; does the answer change?
Yes, amputation is ‘extreme’; so are many, many other voluntary (e.g. heart tattoos) and involuntary (e.g. dysphoria-treating surgeries) body edits. The level of concern expressed for the practitioner’s judgment should not be a function of the severity of edit, and we should always be alert for signs of corruption in those practitioners — whether it’s tattoos, leg lengthening, or limb amputation.
Wait until you find out who helped write the guidelines for those "dysphoria-treating surgeries"...
https://reduxx.info/top-trans-medical-association-collaborat...
I wasn’t talking specifically about trans dysphoria above, but having had to navigate those guidelines personally, I can certainly attest that they prioritize societal fertility over the needs of the patient. Fourteen letters of approval and two years and $25,000 of professional consulting required (at US cash rates before insurance) to receive a single body edit out of the four required. Cis women who aren’t even trans at all can get next-day breast inflation but must pursue months of paperwork and approvals for breast reduction. Tattoos are walk-in and don’t always have sobriety requirements.
Point being, cultural biases are reflected in body edit difficulties, and each culture has their own biases and stupidities. That should not prevent us from aspiring towards a better future, where body edits are uniformly treated with care, caution, and consent — rather than condescension and Gillian’s “Brazil” levels of bureaucratic bullshit: https://youtu.be/VveTsyjFlNA
This article may have done a terrible job at advancing any useful goals in the field of body editing, but the headline sure is some top-shelf clickbait.
Did you read the article? The man was sick
I read half of it.
Because it's a sign that he may have been amputating other people's limbs when not medically necessary.
Or making necessary operations be unnecessarily long, painful, and unsuccessful. I think the anecdotes point to that at least.
Because there's at least a possibility that the surgeon recommended and performed amputations in order to satisfy his own fetishes rather than to do what's best for his patients. As a doctor, he is supposed to do what is best for the patient, not himself.
If it is verified that he has performed medically unwarranted amputations, that'd probably result in some kind of criminal charge due to the grave and permanent bodily harm involved. The loss of his medical license would be the least of his problems.
This would end up classified under “patient abuse or neglect”, which has an ejection rate of around 200 doctors per year in the U.S.: https://plaindiscipline.com/action-type/conviction-patient-a...
Joan's reported experience sounds like a pretty major issue to me.