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Jersey Devil

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2. It is a question of morality

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:50 PM

Oct 2025

Do you become a doctor to help people or to get rich? Such a dilemma. Unfortunately most of the medical profession has chosen the latter, which is not surprising to me given the general moral attitudes of our society.

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