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by mikedelago 1250 days ago
"natural bodily processes" are disrupted all the time for the benefit of the individual.

I'd be interested in some scholarly sources regarding the efficacy of the information you're describing.

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This. A remarkable amount of medical intervention is to externally moderate natural bodily processes that, if allowed to run to their conclusion, would disrupt the body to the point of destruction.

There's nothing special and privileged about "natural" processes; if there were we wouldn't need medicine at all.