Posted by mtdewcmu on April 27, 2011, at 22:32:24
In reply to Re: is pleasant/but odd, posted by sigismund on April 27, 2011, at 13:37:20
> I can not recall a profession so given to rudeness and snap judgments. It must be the power.
Who knows what drives somebody to become a psychiatrist. If you're, say, an endocrinologist, you can prescribe drugs rationally and watch the numbers go up or down, giving you objective feedback on your success or failure to treat the disease. Psychiatry is endless shades of gray. Economics is called the dismal science. Economics is not unlike psychiatry. My introductory economics professor in college claimed that the most rational way to distribute adopted children would be to sell them to the highest bidder. He claimed that it was only squeamishness that prevented us from doing what was optimal. You must have a screw loose if you can't see what would be the outcome of such a system. But I'm sure you would have a hard time convincing many economists.
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