what is really astounding is that he is by all accounts a good surgeon when he is doing procedures with an actual precedent and utility,
It’s not that he’s not innovative, it’s that he is One Of Those surgeons. A large number of surgeons are utter psychopaths. You probably need a dash of it to be a good surgeon because being able to hold it together when confronted with gore and rummage around in people is something you have to do. If you weren’t able to see people as meat then you’d crack.
The problem comes when you have a little bit
too much of that AND you’re suddenly presented with a lax moral framework.
There are a LOT of medics (and scientists, we are just as bad) who wonder
what if..?
Normally there’s a strong moral framework around them , and let’s be honest, threat of legal action to punish them if they act on that ‘what if..?’ But think back to what people get up to when you take those brakes off. You get unit 731, mengele, and all sorts of things. The current Troon trend is a wonderland of possibility for people like this. Now they can answer that little voice that says ‘what if I..?’ Without consequence! And they get paid for it! And anyone who objects gets punished as a transphobe.
What if we blocked puberty in a normal child?
What if we then gave children cross sex hormones?
What happens if I try to craft a cock out of this girl’s arm?
What happens when you dissect someone alive?
What happens when you freeze people to death?
All the same stuff, we’ve just not closed the loop to where we have the Nuremberg and hanging them yet