[There it is again. 'Lapse in judgement.' John's beginning to wonder if Stein even realizes why that's so aggravating.]
An inexcusable lapse in judgement presumes there's any judgement to take into account, doctor. Don't lobotomize someone in the middle of a snow hellscape without proper anesthetics, tools, support personnel, or the full and enthusiastic consent of the patient - every part of the patient. That's not a judgement call. That's basic respect for the medical profession and someone's personal autonomy.
I don't know if this is your way of dealing with it, Dr. Stein, but you're being bloody clinical about something that's not. This is someone's life, their intelligence, the very essence of what makes them them. It's the lives of their friends, too, the people they love and who care about them.
I need to know that matters to you. That you can understand you caused someone pain and that you feel bad about doing it. Not just because it was a lapse in judgement, but because you can understand what it's like to be in pain and know that that's a terrible feeling to inflict on someone else.
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An inexcusable lapse in judgement presumes there's any judgement to take into account, doctor. Don't lobotomize someone in the middle of a snow hellscape without proper anesthetics, tools, support personnel, or the full and enthusiastic consent of the patient - every part of the patient. That's not a judgement call. That's basic respect for the medical profession and someone's personal autonomy.
I don't know if this is your way of dealing with it, Dr. Stein, but you're being bloody clinical about something that's not. This is someone's life, their intelligence, the very essence of what makes them them. It's the lives of their friends, too, the people they love and who care about them.
I need to know that matters to you. That you can understand you caused someone pain and that you feel bad about doing it. Not just because it was a lapse in judgement, but because you can understand what it's like to be in pain and know that that's a terrible feeling to inflict on someone else.