... "lidocaine," a topical anesthesia. The Lidocaine was then given to the surgeon for a third inspection. After confirming that it was lidocaine, the surgeon plunged a full needle into the patients tear duct. The woman screamed in pain, her body jerking against the nurses hands which had to constrain her bucking, willow thin frame. ... The bottle had been mislabeled, it in fact held formaldehyde, commonly used as embalming fluid. The liquid destroyed her good eye and left her blind. Crying out in agony she moaned, "why is the serpent causing me so much pain?" (The serpent being the devil) T...

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... determine what our function is. The function of a thing is what it alone can do, or what it can do best. For example, the function of the eye is to see, and the function of a knife is to cut. Aristotle declared that a human being is "the rational animal" whose function is to reason. Thus ... governed by reason." "Aristotle believed that a person who has difficulty behaving ethically is morally imperfect. His ideal person practices behaving reasonably and properly until he or she can do so naturally and without effort. Aristotle believed that moral virtue is a matter of avoiding extremes...

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