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]So, when you buy an item you may or may not have sales tax (wish I ]didn't).  Is there an equivalent to our GST?  (Goods & Services Tax) ]that gets charged by the federal govt when you buy something? ] ]Not that I know of, no. Certan items have a luxury tax from the Feds, like diamond jewlery. D.J. Oh well something like that ought to affect me right soon now!  Like, never.  (g) LOL Ree

do have a tendency to Catastrophise (the technical term for the all-or-nothing thinking I tend to fall into) but they are learning ways to think their way out of it before they get too bad.  Some of that is simply that they are too smart to fall into that kind of mislogic.  Some of it is because I've been able to help them with techniques I've learned in therapy. Az I've learned some of those things too.  Like rating your anxiety level, then reviewing the catastrophe feelings in terms of how likely they really are to be that bad and then reviewing the feelings again.  Things are still stressful but the panic is more controllable. Ree

Aramanth Dawe < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it wrote in news: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it : <snip I have done Jury Duty before (at a time when my mental state was stronger) so I knew EXACTLY what I would have been letting myself in for had I gone in.  I knew, from experience, that it would have been likely to cause me significant distress AND the person or people I was supposed to be serving to have a less than effective juror.  All round NOT a good thing. Do I suck for taking my legal responsibilities seriously enough to have advised the appropriate department of my illness and ask them to relieve me of the role at this time?  I would have said I did the RIGHT thing in this instance. To me, that isn't ducking your duty. Since your doctor agreed, I'd say your illness might be influencing your opinion on the need to tough it out . Cindy Wells (ducking jury duty to me includes a recently in the news juror who told the judge that there was a death in the family when the individual wanted a free day for fun . That behavior sucks, not yours.) Az Exactly.   Ducking it is looking for an excuse to get out of it.  Not having a valid medical reason why you can't do it.  Imagine if one of your daughters had a valid medical reason for not being in school one day and someone accused them of ducking it and what you would say to them. I say this because you have a strong protective instinct toward your daughters, which is also the way you should start behaving toward yourself.  So taking that as an example for how you should treat yourself is a good way to make it real since you need that protection too, all the more because someone not only didn't protect you when young but victimized you. Ree

]]And unless you've formally studied ethics, you DON'T understand them. ] ]Hogwash. ] ]I don't have to study ethics to understand that dumping patients out ]on the street is what assholes do. My thinking on the subject of ethics can best be summed up by this: The only place I see convoluted ethics questions are: 1) on a job interview questionaire. 2) in a courtroom. The job interview is convoluted so the answers can be used to weed out job applicants. The court room questions are convoluted to either excuse something the defendant or prosection knows is wrong, or confuse the jury, or both. I have seen convoluted questions on job interview questionaires that had no answer in the multiple choice. Why ? The grammar was wrong. There was no 'best fit' answer, which is the 'escape clause' used by lousy uestion writers. Here are the questions I would ask: 1) do you steal ? yes no 2) do you report others for stealing ? yes no 3) do you see dumping a hospital patient onto the street as murder ? yes no. The answers are obvious to someone with ethics. I don't need a degree, nor extensive learning, to figure it out. D.J. The 3rd one isn't totally clear to me as it's not certain that the patient is going to die without treatment.  I believe it's wrong to do it but the patient may not be likely to die without treatment.  Depends what's wrong. True, but the Hippocratic oath says something like first, do no harm.  I realize that applies to an individual doctor, but how can one of those individual doctors condone expelling a patient to the street - or permit the hospital to do the same? I do agree that it is not necessarily murder , but... ...it probably would meet the criteria for criminally negligent homicide.