Talon pilot arrested for being drunk.

JordanD said:
Is it any different from passengers/journalists critiquing pilots when they have no idea what they're talking about?
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Depends on if they've done any research on the subject. You don't have to be licensed in order to have an educated an informed opinion on a subject. Sure, no one is going to call you in court to testify, but do I have to go be a doctor in order to go vote(based on my opinion) on if medical marijuana should be legal or not?
 
Selfmade92 said:
Well I just go by definition :D

"The modern disease theory of alcoholism states that problem drinking is sometimes caused by a disease of the brain, characterized by altered brain structure and function. The American Medical Association (AMA) declared that alcoholismwas an illness in 1956."
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There are doctors that disagree with this theory. So you'll get no argument from me that the AMA has declared it a disease, and that maybe legally it is a disease, I'm just saying based on what I've read, I disagree. I understand no ones going to call on me to give expert testimony on the subject.
 
Determining whether words make descriptive sense is in everyone's jurisdiction. I'd argue that it's a duty of sorts.

Thus, when a bunch of medical doctors get together and start arbitrarily labeling every non-normative condition a "disease", I view it as faintly akin to mechanics telling everyone who comes through the door that they've a "broken engine". Yes, it conveys that there is a serious problem, and in many cases it may even be true, but it is not usefully descriptive. AFAICT, until ~ the early 20th century, a disease referred to a disorder caused by external pathogens or some sort of autoimmune malfunction.

Now, I don't myself dispute that "alcoholism" describes something very real and quite serious (I also don't think it's crazy to dispute this claim, though), but it's important to know what words mean.
 
Boris Badenov said:
Determining whether words make descriptive sense is in everyone's jurisdiction. I'd argue that it's a duty of sorts.

Thus, when a bunch of medical doctors get together and start arbitrarily labeling every non-normative condition a "disease", I view it as faintly akin to mechanics telling everyone who comes through the door that they've a "broken engine". Yes, it conveys that there is a serious problem, and in many cases it may even be true, but it is not usefully descriptive. AFAICT, until ~ the early 20th century, a disease referred to a disorder caused by external pathogens or some sort of autoimmune malfunction.

Now, I don't myself dispute that "alcoholism" describes something very real and quite serious (I also don't think it's crazy to dispute this claim, though), but it's important to know what words mean.
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Need to hang around with more mechanics. EVERY engine (or plane, or car) IS broken to some degree, which is where the central pilot/mechanic disconnect comes from...pilots see airworthiness as binary and mechanics just see different shades of broken.
 
Heavy drinking over personal trauma is not disease. Psychiatric torture and financial abuse does not help a person stop binge drinking, especially when financial and emotional abuse are identified as primary triggers. Contingency management, ala extortion, is abuse. Collusion on axis II for profit is crime. Coerced confession and forced religious indoctrination violate the Geneva convention. Political abuse of psychiatry is crime.

https://jonathandillard.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/schadenfreude/ this is one of a few articles that have not been removed by the powers that be.




Its not my fault that I am one of Solomon Stoddard and Jonathan Blanchard's grandchildren. My father, a Hebrew professor, spoke at Rosslyn Chapel shortly before he died. I had just turned 19
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SKYROCK said:
Heavy drinking over personal trauma is not disease. Psychiatric torture and financial abuse does not help a person stop binge drinking, especially when financial and emotional abuse were identified as triggers. Contingency management, ala extortion, is abuse. Collusion on axis II for profit is crime. Coerced confession and forced religious indoctrination violate the Geneva convention. Political abuse of psychiatry is crime.

https://jonathandillard.wordpress.com/2015/08/21/schadenfreude/
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Do you even know what an axis II disorder is?
 
Ya it's also easy to say that nothing is a disease or a disorder because you can't understand it.

They can just pick themselves up by their bootstraps right?
 
Inverted said:
Is having one glass of wine a week a disease?
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Nope. You can drink wine, vodka, beer...you might even occasionally get drunk...its no disease. Though, I would caution, that methyl esters are known carcinogens along with the majority of tobacco. Vaporized and edible cannabis are safe...its the Scottish way.
 
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And...• the British Crown's education
and their imposters. No, I mean to indigent all the religious idiots that the crown represents. (Rabble)
 
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I think someone got into the methyl esters.

Not sure why he thinks we give a fig Newton about the Royal Crown and those upstart highlanders. Everyone knows they're both not fit to pour the piss of an Irishman out of a boot.
 
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Cptnchia said:
I think someone got into the methyl esters.

Not sure why he thinks we give a fig Newton about the Royal Crown and those upstart highlanders. Everyone knows they're both not fit to pour the piss of an Irishman out of a boot.
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I do enjoy some Royal Crown cola, but that's about it, :)
 
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