Philosophy of Medicine: Everything Is a Relationship
Is everything new a well-forgotten old?
This story about microbes but once I started writing about microbes, it required to talk about the theory of relationships and overall philosophy of medicine and life. So here we go.
Everything in life is a relationship. We are in a relationship with the spiritual world and the physical world, with our own soul, with other people, and yes, with microbes.
Good and evil
I have written about it in great detail in the past but to recap my thoughts, I believe that habitually, we define “good” and “evil” in terms that are relative to us. It is a measure of compatibility with our perceived well-being and what we hold dear.
For example, if somebody robs you, he is evil. If, on the other hand, he robs invisible people in a faraway land and then uses a small part of the loot to “butter” you and gain your support, is he evil? Or is he just a sensible contemporary politician doing what needs to be done?
Or, if you subscribe to the magical industry…
