[ExI] Tolerance

[Post Futurist]

>  IMO any doctor who would violate their Hippocratic oath would be similar in spirit if not letter to a "Christian" who would commit a felony, such as burglary.

>>The reason this is fallow ground is it presupposes two requirements in order to commit such a transgression, two requirements that are not actually required.
Premeditation and malice. Also note that 'violate' is not equivalent to 'commit' even in your thesis.
>James Choate
Not even malice? one would think malice would be a given in doing something contrary to an oath; say if one breaks the oath to tell 'the truth
 the whole truth...' in
 a court case by committing perjuring, isn't there a bit of malice involved-- even if it is spontaneous?



      
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