haven't updated this for quite some time, so I just want to do a little quick post to try to keep this going in one way or another, so here are a few notes from my Philosophy notebook. is it only seemingly impossible to think of something controversial because of the society we live in?  American prisoner slave trade, ethics of exploitation, persecution to inequality; it is all common knowledge.  perhaps thorough media coverage. and this one: probability was obviously invented for very good reasons. we can made probability judgements in medicine based purely on previous cases because of the (apparently) similarity between humans.  it's  simply quicker saying "4 out of 5 dentists", than saying "4 out of 5 dentists, but not unequivocally because unobserved cases might not resemble observed cases". neither make any good points, they're just musings.  xx