Dignity is a useless concept

Impure placebo is a useless concept.

Placebos are allegedly used widely in general practice. Surveys reporting high level usage, however, have combined two categories, 'pure' and 'impure' placebos. The wide use of placebos is explained by the high level usage of impure placebos. In contrast, the prevalence of the use of pure placebos has been low. Traditional pure placebos are clinically ineffective treatments, whereas impure plac...

A Concept of Human Dignity

Dying with dignity: is this a universal concept?

As a doctor, I had many times to break bad news to terminally ill patients and their families in terms of the diagnosis, prognosis, and palliative care options. However, I was never a relative myself in such a situation. I had dealt with bereavement in the past following the death of my father, but this was a sudden and unexpected event. In the case of my mother, the circumstances were very dif...

a concept of human dignity

this paper argues for acceptance of digniry as a concept that ne use to describe an aggregate ef values and qualities of someone or something that deserve esteem and respect. the primary value that creates the nght to have dzgniry is life. the degree of dzgniry according to a particular life form depends on its place in the evolutionary scale. human beings are the hzghestform ef life so thry po...

Parity is Positively Useless

We give the first examples of non-trivially positively-useless predicates subject only to P 6= NP. In particular, for every constraint function Q : {−1, 1}4 → R, we construct Contraint-SatisfactionProblem (CSP) instances without negations which have value at least 1 − ε when evaluted for the arity-four odd-parity predicate, yet it is NP-hard to find a solution with value significantly better th...