do you feel sympathy for people with self inflicted diseases?

I feel sympathy for the people who die because their liver transplant went to an alcoholic further up on the list, their lung transplant went to a smoker, etc.

Self Inflicted Diseases

The way I see it there are other important factors in the issue that may complicate it.

1. Not all people who do alcohol or cigarettes suffer the mortal illnesses that are associated with them. For example: George Burns was an avid cigar smoker, yet lived to 100. And vice versa, people who have never smoked a day in their lives can develop lung cancer.

2. The person may not have as much control over their behavior as you or they might realize. Nicotine is extremely addictive and affects the way we experience pleasure and our very core motivations. In other words, part of someone might want them to quit, but part of them enjoys the good feeling and is unwilling to let it go.

3. When we feel sympathy for people it's usually an instinctive empathetic reaction that isn't directly controlled by our conscious mind. So if we see a person suffering, it almost doesn't matter how they got to be there, we still feel sympathy. Even if the person directly caused their pain, like in the case of a suicide attempt we still feel for their suffering.

So yes. I would feel sympathy for them. That doesn't mean I have to condone the behavior that contributed to that suffering.

I do feel sad in a way that it is wasting what could have been a healthy body. It's the senselessness of it that bothers me. I just feel it could have been so much better for them. There is so much more education today on the hazards of smoking than there was long ago when it was accepted and made you look "cool." It's a different atmosphere today with smoking. I smoked for many many years and quit about 6 years ago. If I was given the education that teens are given today on the subject, I would have never smoked. Back then it was just "cool." So when I see these old timers suffering with lung disease, I do feel bad for what could have been for them. I'm not so sympathic for the younger ones who know very well what it can do to you and still choose to do it.

Following the ethics code i would not do any transplant to any alcoholic or drug addict and then inspite of the area i might keep the people who had the optimal probability of survival and discard people who've the least. i might additionally attempt great no longer undemanding to no longer get emotional. lower back it is following the code and because i'm premed I could. So regrettably the international well known scientist and the burn sufferer may well be final to obtain therapy and the criminal will obtain it first as much as that SUCKS it is how issues are executed. you may keep those which will make it, in vehicle injuries they seek for the extra alive individual and keep them first inspite of age or something. it is the reason docs do no longer understand own info of their sufferers by the way because of the fact then they might wreck the code. EDIT the alcoholic is his liver so broken he needs a transplant because of the fact if so I in basic terms saved the scientist YAY!! lol i'm sorry it sucks yet organs are no longer given to those who will maximum possibly injury the uncommon present. That liver belongs in somebody who will by no skill touch something like alcohol and medicines which will smash it. in actuality if a affected person at the same time as on the record does any style of unprescribed drug(keep advil or some thing) or alcohol they get kicked off the record.

I pity them and despise their guardians or family members. If they were born only to be, pardon my french, "shitted on", and forced into other methods to feel "alive" well then shame on those people who pushed them in that direction. It is by no mean their fault, they can do a difference now, so at a point if they aren't trying, and there is no reason for them not trying, then I would begin to lose sympathy. But if I see a child at my age of 15, who is overweight, does drugs, and fights, then I pity him 100%. He may begin to change his perspective in life, but not until he eliminates the deranged teachings he recieved from his early-childhood surroundings.

Well sure - they mostly have very little control over what addictions they have. Self righteous pinheads who aren't addicted to cigs or booze often need to condemn these people not realizing that for a slight difference in their genes, they'd be doing the same thing.

No.It's their life and i don't have the tiniest sympathy for them.They chose to smoke and use alcohol.They knew what can happen so it's their fault not mine or anyone else's.

I feel rather apathetic towards them, but I suppose if it was someone I was close to my opinion would be biased enough to care.

I don't usually feel sorry for them, however I often feel concern for why they would do that to themselves.