Will Manifold prefer a doctor defending us at a murder trial over a lawyer performing life-or-death surgery on us?

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resolved Jul 19

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YES if manifold prefers a doctor defending us from murder

NO if manifold prefers a lawyer doing our surgery

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Seems pretty obvious to me, murder trial doesn't necessarily lead to death sentence, so the damage is potentially lower than a botched surgery. The probability of a doctor doing okay in court is also bigger than a lawyer doing major surgery. On top of all that there's theoretical possibilities of appeals, mistrials and getting out on good behavior.

Also if something happens they didn't plan for you can ask for a recess in court to do more research and planning, if something goes wrong during a surgery you can't just pause it for a few weaks while you try to figure out why it's going wrong.

As Abed said "anyone can be a lawyer. You can even represent yourself. You can't do surgery on yourself, it's illegal. You'd get arrested. And then you get a free lawyer."

ive heard of ppl performing surgery on themselves in extreme conditions and surviving, how many people have become self taught lawyers and defended themselves from murders i wonder

In most cases internal self-surgery was done by people with at least some medical training, for example, Leonid Rogozov specifically chose to operate on himself with a mirror over trusting it to untrained people.