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Anon2kMal said:

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.”

“In the process of fighting the monster they hated, they became the monster that they themselves were trying to kill.”
Etc etc

I dunno, I don't see many real life medical doctors become mass murderers..

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Elmithian said:

I dunno, I don't see many real life medical doctors become mass murderers..

So people just conveniently forgot Marie Curie indirectly contributed to the creation of atomic bombs, eh.
Indeed, the bombings happened a long ways after her death, but the fact was still there: if Curie never found out about radiation, there would never be a WoMD we called atomic bombs today, therefore she was the key factor that enables mass genocide.

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Elmithian said:

I dunno, I don't see many real life medical doctors become mass murderers..

Google evil doctors and consider that those are just the famous ones who got caught. There's literally thousands to millions of people out there practicing medicine who don't know what they're doing and don't care because of the social clout and wealth the field of medicine brings them. It's why peer review and the opinions of others is so important.

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Rathurue said:

So people just conveniently forgot Marie Curie indirectly contributed to the creation of atomic bombs, eh.
Indeed, the bombings happened a long ways after her death, but the fact was still there: if Curie never found out about radiation, there would never be a WoMD we called atomic bombs today, therefore she was the key factor that enables mass genocide.

...So, out of 9 million of doctors you are cherry picking a specific example? And a pretty bad one at that. What you said is like saying everyone in the world is indirectly a murderer if you want to stretch out things this far.

No, the Wright brothers are totally indirectly responsible for the nuclear strike because they used planes to use the nukes! Do you realize how absurd that sounds?

And mentioning miss Marie. Since you mention that, you should know that this discovery has saved way more people than it has harmed over the world no? In fact, due to this knowledge, we have lowered the risk of cancer immensely, found ways to fight cancer better, use it to sterilize tools, use it for insanely large swaths of research and technology. Particle accelerators, diffractions, spectrometers and so on. If you want to blame her for the nukes, then you are going to give her the credit she deserves all the people her discovery has saved, technology invented and so on no?

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Anyhow, in general, doctors want to help people. If they wanted to be mass murderers, there are better and smarter ways to do it than go through rigorous training for minimum of 7 years of higher education. Sure, you could argue some are in for the money, but again, 7 years minimum you wasted that you could have studied something else as there is no guarantee you will get a well paying job.