• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    If pursuing something ascribed supreme importance is a religion, then being a doctor is a religion. Doctors ascribe supreme importance to the value of human life and to saving it.

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      1 year ago

      Then it is. Not all doctors do, but ones who do would certainly fall under that category.

      You see doctors educating, not badly trying to shame people to, for example, not participate in sports.