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If awareness of alternative 'medicine' gained from this incident cause a single person to go to a real doctor and have their life saved, it will be Steve Jobs' greatest legacy.

Stop thinking about gadgets for one minute and consider human life.

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Alex3917 did not say anything about gadgets.

It was not my intention to imply that he had.

What was the point of bringing it up, then?

I was anticipating protest, and addressing it before the fact.

I don't understand what kind of protest you were anticipating. Calling for deeper discussion of the motives or thought process behind a mistaken action is in no way an endorsement of gadgets over human life. It sounds more like you were trying to twist this into something about Apple.

I was anticipating this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080812

S.Jobs legacy is his creativity, his passion to 'think differently'. Not flaccid dogmatism.

I believe you may have missed the last sentence in my post.

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