Well, but it is significant. Can we back up a minute here? On the small scale, is it true that your body will generally repair a small scratch with zero "treatment" but your car will not? Can we agree on that point, before talking about doctors or mechanics?
My analogy is not perfect, but in it the actions of an immune system map to the actions of a car owner.
If you get sick, you can see a doctor, or you can try to fix it yourself (with your immune system). If your car breaks, you can see a mechanic, or you can try to fix it yourself (with your hands).
Do you think that mapping is sufficiently flawed to render conclusions I draw from it invalid?
So you are not willing to grant that, on a small scale, the body heals itself? You are unwilling to concede that one point? Why? You admit your analogy is imperfect, yet you do not wish to concede that my point has any basis in rationality while calling me insane elsewhere in this discussion.
Even assuming I am insane, is there some big problem with admitting that a scratch on a person will heal by itself without any treatment but a scratch on a car will not and will remain a permanent defect? Can we agree on that much or can we not?
How the hell are you reading a denial of the existence of the immune system in my post? You must have some serious persecution complex issues if that is what you think I just said. You just keep digging yourself into your hole though... and yet you are confused why people don't take you seriously...
You can heal some injuries without going to a doctor, and you can fix some car difficulties without doing to a mechanic.
You read that as me denying that your body can heal yourself? What the hell? I cannot possible see how you could have so much difficulty understanding.
I don't know how anyone could be expected to have an intelligent conversation with you on this topic. You are completely closed off to it.
If your car has a damaged part, they replace it. With CF, they often outright replace the damaged lungs -- as if the body is like a car and needs a replacement part because it can't grow its own.
They nuke the body with poison, then stand back and wait for your lungs to fall below a certain level of functionality. You can put a different type of gas in your car, it will never heal, not even a scratch. You can put different food in your body and see big, big changes. Doctors acknowledge this when they blame obesity, heart disease, etc on your diet and lifestyle. They turn around and dismiss it when it comes to healing.
I am sorry you are so flustered. We should probably drop it if it upsets you so much.
