#clevergal10

This is awful, if killing or hurting people doesn’t traumatise someone, then they shouldn’t be a cop. It should be simply not allowed. Because killing people should haunt you, it should FEEL regretful, it should stick with you to your grave. Because that’s the emotional horror of ending a life, and that’s why you do everything possible to not kill.

This is what I meant by that whole debacle of an empathy discussion, right here in one paragraph.

“Because killing people should haunt you, it should FEEL regretful, it should stick with you to your grave.”

That. Right there. That is why lack of remorse bothers me, and why when people give me elaborate arguments for how it’s hypothetically possible to refrain from doing immoral things even if you wouldn’t regret them if you did them, I feel intellectually impressed that they might have a point or accurately describe their own personality

but completely unconvinced that most people who lack remorse are safe for me or others (esp. more vulnerable people) to be around.

(In reference to this post.)

That's good to hear.

Yes, but it’s not the norm for any species; it happens when a pentagonal starfish loses an arm to an injury or growth defect! A normal one is on the right:

Everyone varies in how they handle it but I don’t find it all that extra stressful. If your patient is definitely going to die without intervention, then it takes some of the burden off you. If you’re looking at certain death otherwise, your actions can only improve the situation. How could you possibly make it worse?

Most people understand that a ‘life saving procedure’ has death as a potential complication and are reasonable about that, whereas a ‘routine’ procedure, although commonly done, that still has a very, very small risk of death as a complication, can be more stressful because that outcome will not be tolerated at all by the client.

It’s also super cool to pull off a procedure which is directly lifesaving. Sometimes you get to see an animal literally coming back from the brink of death before your very eyes. Tissue that was pale and clammy becomes pink and warm again, ECGs normalize as the electrolytes are put back in order, pieces of flesh come back together in the right place.

Just recently I treated a pericardial effusion - a dog that was dying because the sac around the heart was filling up with blood, putting pressure on the heart muscle from the outside and constricting it so it couldn’t pump blood adequately. There’s no medication to fix this, you have to put a big damn needle into that pericardial sac, through the chest wall, to drain it. Generally this is done with an ultrasound probe in place so you can see what you’re doing and not, you know, accidentally stab the heart, which means I got to watch that heart beat steadily stronger and slower as the fluid was drained. I could watch the dog come back from the brink of death as I just kept going.

This is a really cool twine game. The lives and future of the remains on humanity are in your hands. Be prepared to make sacrifices.

Okay, I’m gonna ask the cards what you should focus on academic-wise, if that’s alright.

I use for all of my newer themes that aren’t revamps of my really old themes.

There are definitely perks. You get access to the manage theme page which keeps track of how many people are installing each theme over time, and how many people have installed your themes total.

If your themes get popular enough, like my Accessible theme, it gets featured on the customizing page when you look for free themes, which gives it even more exposure. You also increase the possibility of being in a featured collection in the theme garden.

Also when you update the code, it will automatically update for everyone who uses the theme. So no need to rely on people seeing your update post and hoping people reinstall it.

Downside is you have to wait for your theme to be approved by staff before it’s in the theme garden. There are many guidelines that you have to meet, and there are things you absolutely have to include. This can limit what you can do with the theme, but I’ve not had that problem yet.

If a glitch happens with the process, staff is not very helpful and assumes it’s just you not knowing how to code.

Also, when you update a theme, you have to wait again for it to be approved before everyone gets updated.

In order to submit to the theme garden, you have to provide a tagline for the theme, and a thumbnail image which has VERY specific dimensions that it absolutely has to be. Same goes for the other preview images.

So yeah that’s about it for the pros and cons!